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Police threaten to shut down conference of Europe’s far-right elites

BRUSSELS — Police on Tuesday threatened to shut down a gathering on “national conservatism” that was underway in the Belgian capital, giving Europe’s hard-right elites a further opportunity to rail against cancel culture and Brussels overreach. The event was supposed to be a two-day conference featuring the likes of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, former…

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How Shogun’s Depiction of Seppuku Compares to Real History

Warning: This post contains spoilers for episode 9 of Shōgun. With just one episode to go in the sprawling, action-packed, emotional journey that is FX’s Shōgun—loosely inspired by real events that took place in turn-of-the-17th-century feudal Japan—the miniseries has reached one of the most devastating and pivotal moments in the best-selling 1975 James Clavell novel…

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