History

Why Hitler Loved ‘Social Justice’5
- History, Culture
- May 16, 2024
In August 1920 in Munich, a young Adolf Hitler delivered one of his first public speeches before a crowd of some 2,000 people. During his speech, which lasted nearly two hours and was interrupted nearly 60 times by cheers, Hitler touched on a theme he’d repeat in future speeches, stating he did not believe that
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Has ‘The New York Times’ Always Been ‘Fake News’?9
- History, Culture, Featured
- May 15, 2024
The New York Times is widely regarded as the newspaper of record in the United States. Founded in 1851 to appeal to a cultured, intellectual readership rather than a mass audience, the Gray Lady has won a record-breaking 137 Pulitzer Prizes, including for its reporting on the infamous Pentagon Papers. In times of sharp political
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How Historical Revisionism Hides ‘Oppenheimer’s’ Secrets 7
- Culture, Entertainment, Featured, History
- May 13, 2024
Since its release in the summer of 2023, critics and fans have not stopped talking about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. But the more I watch and read people’s views on the film, the more I suspect that a large number of us completely missed the artistic thrust of the project. Oppenheimer, based on the Pulitzer-winning book
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Was America Evil to Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?8
- History
- May 1, 2024
During a recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Tucker Carlson made a bold claim about the August 1945 decision by the United States to bomb the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—a move that effectively put an end World War II. He said: My ‘side’ has spent the last 80 years defending the
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Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl on Collective Guilt 0
- History, Featured, Philosophy
- April 24, 2024
Only in movies and books is the line between good and evil people always clear. In The Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 2), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn immortalized these words: “The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts.” Solzhenitsyn wrote those
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Why Karl Marx Desperately Needed Jordan Peterson’s Advice 6
- Economics, History, Philosophy
- April 24, 2024
As I make my way through Paul Kengor’s wonderful book The Devil and Karl Marx, numerous things stand out about the father of communism. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s hard to imagine a more wretched human being than Karl Marx. It was almost as if all of the worst traits of humanity were
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