I’ve never gotten absorbed in the ups and downs of the British Royals. There was, after all, that small dust-up in 1776 that firmly settled the matter of the Brits in America … at least until 1812, when they had…
Winston Churchill gave his maiden broadcast to the United Kingdom as prime minister 80 years ago May 19. It was a day long in coming. He was a brave, irritating, complex, frustrating, energetic, enigmatic, and confounding figure. He had a…
For four years, the German Empire took on much of the world in what was originally called the Great War. Berlin had allies, after a fashion — the decrepit Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires, along with Bulgaria, a smaller kingdom on…
Oops! Hell hath no fury like a confused newspaper with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Behold: the Washington Post. On January 13 at 2:25 p.m., the paper headlined this: Trump amplifies incendiary tweets about Nancy Pelosi after her comments on Iran protests…
One of the basic methods of propaganda is reversal — make an accusation against your enemies that is so blatantly false as to be the exact opposite of truth. This technique has become known as “the Big Lie” because of…
In mid-1939 German Chancellor Adolf Hitler had a problem. He wanted to go to war with the Soviet Union in order to grab precious Lebensraum, or living space — and eradicate the Bolshevik menace. The Western powers, however, namely Great…
Long before the election of Donald Trump to the office of president, Jerry Seinfeld called the owner of his favorite lunchtime dive “the Soup Nazi.” Then we had the acclaimed German film Downfall, chronicling Hitler’s last days. While hardly the…
A moving burial ceremony in Berlin on Monday reminded us of the high cost of those who stand against evil. Those executed for resisting Adolf Hitler and his monstrous death state suffered the final indignity of secret, anonymous disposal of…
Have you ever wondered who the evilest people to ever walk this earth are? Adolf Hitler always seems to be the go-to reference in such conversations. It is a difficult thing to quantify. Do we do it statistically — that…