The ignorance astounds. As the 2024 campaigns winds to a close, former President Donald Trump is being raked over the coals for saying, according to Gen. John Kelly, that Hitler “did some good things.” (And under the circumstances, it wouldn’t…
When you lose the debate over immigration, inflation, crime at home, and chaos abroad, shift the conversation to Adolf Hitler. That’s the “Packers Sweep” from the Democratic Party’s desperation playbook. The Fuhrer seems not very 2024. But when you cannot…
The United States is now paying for serial acts of appeasement for over a decade. We are witnessing the bitter fruits of irresolution, lack of national discipline, and self-doubt — and our enemies and potential adversaries know it. The well-known…
Robert De Niro is a great actor. I have keenly followed much of his career. The thing with De Niro is that in real life, when he’s not acting, he’s not so great. When he talks politics, the myth crumbles;…
Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany in 1932. His rhetoric and actions between 1932 and 1939 made it clear to anyone willing to see and hear and read that he sought German hegemony in Europe and beyond. He ignored and…
In the long ago and far away, as the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis slowly became front and center in 1920s Germany, what became known as the “Hitler Youth” came into existence. Over there at the Holocaust Encyclopedia is this…
It wasn’t about Israel. It was Nov. 28, 1941. Israel, founded in 1948 — seven years later — did not exist. The territory of modern-day Israel and Palestine was then under the control the British. Europe was at war. Adolf…
A heroine died the other day. Traute Lafrenz, a member of the White Rose resistance to Germany’s Nazis, passed away at 103 years old. She was the last known living member of the doomed group of idealistic students. The Soviet…
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers By Emma Smith (Penguin Random House, 352 pages, $28) We are what we read. Such is the central claim of Emma Smith’s new book, Portable Magic: A History of Books and…
