Welcome to Circa 1945: Breaking the Machine. Most of the time, I tell you stories from history, or from my own life. But sometimes, I want to follow another kind of story — a parable from fiction. Because fiction can ask the wildest, most dangerous question of all: what if?

And in our time, no fictional villain has gotten people talking about genocide more than Thanos.

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