![]() Michelle Goldberg (Twitter: is a columnist for The New York Times, where this piece originally appeared. Besides being a crisis, escalating antisemitism is a warning: Things are falling apart. but specifically to overturn the conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Reflections on the Death of Emile Durkheim. mile Durkheim returned to Paris, summoned to the famous French university the. Initially decided against Dreyfus in 1894, the matter gradually came unglued. ![]() Hate spread even as the unspoken restraints governing people’s conduct fell away. The Dreyfus Affair involved allegations that Alfred Dreyfusa Jewish officer in the French General Staffhad been a spy. The Dreyfus Affair began at the end of 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus was arrested, imprisoned, and convicted of espionage on behalf of Germany. Durkheim remains a fundamental and prominent figure. These conspiracy theories helped erode people’s faith in their leaders, which was already weakened by governments’ inevitable difficulties balancing shifting public health guidance with people’s need for autonomy and pleasure. He defended Alfred Dreyfus during the Dreyfus affair and was a founding member of the Human Rights League. Isolated people turned to social media, which, as the Tel Aviv University report pointed out, abounded with conspiracy theories blaming Jews for spreading the coronavirus so they could profit from vaccines. The pandemic and the accompanying changes in the way people live, work and go to school were wrenching and destabilizing. It was unwell before the pandemic - a country that could elect Donald Trump is sick by definition - and is in much worse shape now.
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