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Category Archives: History
Scrubbing Woodrow Wilson
Of BLM’s attempt to remove a mural of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University, one would expect a liberal to write something like this: I still haven’t decided what I think about the tumult at Princeton. I’m against caving into the … Continue reading
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Laqueur on Snyder
In Mosaic (“Advancing Jewish Thought”), Walter Laqueur discusses the Holocaust books of Yale historian Timothy Snyder: The reception given to both of Snyder’s books has generally been rapturous, if more so in the United States than in Europe, and more … Continue reading
The Hollywood Ten
With the Bryan Cranston movie about Dalton Trumbo now out, and the usual tripe being written about that time, it’s a good time to get a refresher on who the so-called ‘Hollywood Ten’ were. Through decades of Hollywood-inspired vilification of … Continue reading
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Oskar Gröning
Who is Oskar Gröning? From Wikipedia: Oskar Gröning (born 10 June 1921) is a German former SS-Unterscharführer who was stationed at Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting the money taken from prisoners, and was in charge of … Continue reading
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The Horrors of WW2
In his new book, historian Antony Beevor delves into the indescribable horrors of WW2. Of young, inexperienced, American soldiers thrust into the meat grinder German front: Faced with this onslaught, the American defenders fell back in disarray. The units defending … Continue reading
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Karl Kraus
From Russell Jacoby’s review of The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen, et al: Kraus dabbled in anti-Semitism. He was Jewish himself—or rather he was born Jewish but joined the Catholic Church in 1911 … Continue reading
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The Lost Pyramids of Meroë
The Atlantic has some fantastic photos of the lost pyramids of Meroë, which is a stretch of desert north of Khartoum: In a desert in eastern Sudan, along the banks of the Nile River, lies a collection of nearly 200 … Continue reading
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The Armenian Genocide vs. The Holocaust™
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide of Christian minorities by a sultanate Ottoman Empire (modern day Turkey.) When I was a freshman in college, I had a floor-mate in my dorm named Don, who was an … Continue reading
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Harrison Report, Patton, & the Holocaust Memorial Industry
Making waves at NYT.com is “Surviving the Nazis, Only to Be Jailed by America” by Eric Lichtblau, Washington correspondent for The New York Times and the author of “The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s … Continue reading
Wallace Stevens – The Death of a Soldier (1931)
On this Armistice Day, which marks the end of World War I, and writ larger, the supreme sacrifices made by soldiers of all nations, here is “The Death of a Soldier” by the incredibly-visionary-and-way-ahead-of-his-time poet Wallace Stevens, a poem which … Continue reading
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