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Italy too has its fascist war crimes. But no Nuremberg trial forced the Italians to take notice of them. A glimpse into the Italian soul is offered by Ennio Flaiano's 'A Time to Kill,' about an absurd adventure during the Abyssinian War.

Martin Luther lived in an era of transition. Traditional economic models were disappearing. The new monetary and fiscal policy was robbing many people of their livelihoods. The Augustinian monk Martin Luther formulated his views in the face of these developments. Some of them were neither progressive nor backward-looking, but simply unworldly.

It is not easy to find justice for one's own position when the adversary is regarded as a saint. Sofya Andreyevna Tolstaya, wife of the Russian national poet Leo Tolstoy, was among the silent losers of history for centuries. Only nearly a century after her husband's death is her position slowly receiving more understanding.

The question of what education people should receive is not new. One book takes us back to the age of humanism, when even the knightly class discovered classical learning for itself. The craft of arms alone could no longer sustain one's livelihood around 1500. And so the question arose: how does one bring Cicero to those who cannot read Latin?

A world without money, what could that look like? At the end of the 19th century, the English socialist William Morris invented such a world. His utopia doesn’t fully explain how such a society would function, but it is an invitation to dream.