It’s natural for a losing political party to look for scapegoats. As political columnist Mark Shields said on the PBS Newshour on January 25: “As far as the Republicans are concerned, the… more →
Bureaucracybuster's Blogwrote 4 days ago: In 1944, Morgenthau proposed the Morgenthau Plan for postwar Germany, calling for Germany to lose th … more →
wrote 4 days ago: Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels sign autographs for members of the Canadian figure skating team at … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels in the foreground with others high rank Nazi officers. … more →
wrote 1 week ago: German Constitutional Court Last Summer Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB) prom … more →
wrote 1 week ago: If there is one phrase that sums up this government’s belief in the power of the sign over all … more →
wrote 1 week ago: Long, super-heavyweight freight trains’ coaches are connected by simple hooks: To some speakers and … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Last night I decided to give the mainstream news reports on television another go (I had given up wa … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: The English Defence League launches a new line in domestic appliances. Coming soon: The Goebbels Tea … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: The Huffington Post is currently running a short piece and slideshow: Book Burning In History: Marti … more →
wrote 1 month ago: A world of total war, where everyone was constantly violent, would be the simplest world we c … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Berkeley economist Brad DeLong includes in his blog a valuable daily feature, “Liveblogging Wo … more →
wrote 1 month ago: - Alexey Navalny’s reflections on Monday’s rally, in English. - Boris Akunin, on how hi … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Three years after the second World War ended, almost half of Americans believed Adolf Hitler … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Propaganda in the most neutral sense means to disseminate or promote particular ideas. It is the del … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The unsettling image of the Third Reich’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, glaring at pho … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I went to see a production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui this week. It’s by Brecht; yes … more →
wrote 1 month ago: The Hollywood moguls took their time in waking up to the peril of Adolf Hitler. In many ways this is … more →
wrote 1 month ago: Whether conservative, liberal, libertarian, independent or dumbbell, one should be honest. Nazi prop … more →