German dictator Adolf Hitler once set out to destroy the Catholic Church: his regime shut down Catholic schools and arrested priests and nuns, imprisoning them en masse in the infamous concentration camps. Many were executed. According to some historical sources,…
I let thoughts percolate and events develop before writing each week. This week, there were so many ideas coming forward that it was at first difficult to choose. But three things came together to point me in the direction that…
Sell the sizzle, not the steak. That was the mantra coined by the American master salesman Elmer Wheeler in the 1930s. What he meant was this — you don’t sell by reasoning. You get people to buy by evoking the…
I had a nightmare. In it, Larry David, the Seinfeld writer reputedly worth $400 million, invited me to dinner at his place. A fan of the show, I was happy to go. I even brought a chocolate babka, a bottle…
Larry David is a legend. The irritable neurotic behind Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm turned petulance into a form of performance art. He gave awkward silence a pulse. His misanthropy is somehow warm. His genius lies in the discomfort. But in his latest…
Who belongs in history’s Hall of Evil? Paul Kengor partnered with PragerU to do a series highlighting his top 6 picks: Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot. They all have one big thing…
This year has been marked by numerous World War II-related “80th Anniversary” celebrations, keyed to 1944 as the penultimate and most decisive year of the war. D-Day has been commemorated, and Anzio, Monte Cassino, and the Battle of the Bulge,…
I despair — I really do despair. Over the past several years, I’ve tried again and again to point out the sheer unadulterated idiocy of the left’s obsession with Hitler. And yet, here we go again. A demonstrably innocent gesture…
“Today we must reckon with the harsh reality that authoritarianism has arrived in America, that it’s broadly popular, and that millions of our fellow citizens have given it their votes,” writes the LA Times. “This was a conquering of the…
