728 x 90

History

  • Are You a Servant of Tyranny or Liberty?

    Are You a Servant of Tyranny or Liberty?1

    In 1788, George Washington wrote letters to the Marquis de Lafayette during the process of ratifying the proposed Constitution by the states. Washington made clear to General Lafayette the essentials to prevent the new American republic from devolving into “despotic or oppressive form”: limited delegated powers to the government, checks and balances, and “virtue in the body

    READ MORE
  • Why Hitler Loved ‘Social Justice’

    Why Hitler Loved ‘Social Justice’5

    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

    READ MORE
  • Has ‘The New York Times’ Always Been ‘Fake News’?

    Has ‘The New York Times’ Always Been ‘Fake News’?10

    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

    READ MORE
  • How Historical Revisionism Hides ‘Oppenheimer’s’ Secrets

    How Historical Revisionism Hides ‘Oppenheimer’s’ Secrets7

    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

    READ MORE
  • Was America Evil to Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?

    Was America Evil to Drop Atomic Bombs on Japan?9

    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

    READ MORE
  • Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl on Collective Guilt

    Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl on Collective Guilt0

    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

    READ MORE

Latest Posts

Top Authors

© Copyright Intellectual Takeout 2024