Russia the humiliated
Commenter “Bauxite” has some interesting things to say: Russia is what it is. It’s a big mess, and it has been a big mess more often than not for most of its history. I have no argument with that. Next: … Continue reading →
Category Archives: History
Happy unwoke Columbus Day!
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] The stock of Christopher Columbus has fallen in recent years as a result of the general campaign on the part of the left by figures such as Howard Zinn to … Continue reading →
Weighing evil: Soviets and Nazis
Some years ago I read Martin Amis’ book entitled Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, which deals with Stalin. At one point (I noted at the time that it was on pages 82-86, although I no longer have … Continue reading →
Teaching Zinn: Part II
[Part I can be found here.] Some people regard Zinn’s work as so eye-opening it hits them almost like a conversion experience. Many of these people turn out to be teachers, exposed to Zinn at some point during their training. … Continue reading →
The new and not-so-new Fascism: have you noticed, re the Meloni election…
…how “God, country, and family” has become the very essence of Fascism? Here’s her “fascism”: But here is a cataloging, as best as I can pull together, of the claims used to portray Meloni as fascist: Meloni “bemoans” the chronically … Continue reading →
The election of Italy’s “far-right” Giorgia Meloni: the EU “has tools”
The EU was none too pleased at the prospect of the election of Giorgia Meloni of Italy: As Italians prepare[d] to vote in [Sunday’s] general election, the European Union has issued a warning – making clear that it stands ready … Continue reading →
Teaching Zinn: Part I
This post and a planned Part II are mostly based on a draft I wrote in March of 2013. That’s nearly ten years ago – how time does fly! I’ve mentioned before that I have a lot of old drafts … Continue reading →
Slavery and reparations
This video of Don Lemon being confronted – by a British royalty spokesperson named Hilary Fordwich – with some salient facts about the history of slavery, has been making the rounds. In case you haven’t seen it yet, here it … Continue reading →
Telling Big Lies: more Senate probes of Trump
It’s often educational to visit the looking-glass world of the leftist press. For example, from Salon, we have this article entitled, “‘Trump turned DOJ into his personal law firm’: Senate probes prosecutor’s claim of Trump corruption”: The Senate Judiciary Committee … Continue reading →
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Commenter “Mac” expresses what I’ve been feeling too: I have a sense that politically, culturally, socially, things are *not* going to be ok. Things are *not* going to work out. The America that we knew is not going to survive. … Continue reading →
The 50th anniversary of the Munich Olympics massacre is today
Young people probably have no idea about that happened back then. But those of us who are older certainly remember. It was stunningly shocking at the time, and even worse because it occurred in Germany at what was supposed to … Continue reading →
Fascism, real and fake
“Fascism” and “fascist” are popular epithets that have come to mean anything people want them to mean, but they always mean “bad.” Lately Biden and his minions have taken to calling the half of America that doesn’t agree with them … Continue reading →