By Ezra Macvie ∙ December 1, 2013
Sony Pictures Classics, 2012, 147 mins. West of Memphis is about the discovery in 1993 of the bodies of three local boys about eight years old, hog-tied, beaten and lacerated, in a marsh in Arkansas about 24 hours after they were last seen alive. The incident has become famous in the aftermath of the trial…
By Ralph Raico ∙ December 1, 2013
The changes wrought in America during the First World War were so profound that one scholar has referred to “the Wilsonian Revolution in government.”[1] Like other revolutions, it was preceded by an intellectual transformation, as the philosophy of progressivism came to dominate political discourse.[2] Progressive notions – of the obsolescence of laissez-faire and of constitutionally…
By Ralph Raico ∙ April 1, 2013
With the onset of war in Europe, hostilities began in the North Atlantic which eventually provided the context – or rather, pretext – for America’s participation. Immediately, questions of the rights of neutrals and belligerents leapt to the fore. In 1909, an international conference had produced the Declaration of London, a statement of international law…
By Ralph Raico ∙ December 1, 2012
The immediate origins of the 1914 war lie in the twisted politics of the Kingdom of Serbia.[1] In June, 1903, Serbian army officers murdered their king and queen in the palace and threw their bodies out a window, at the same time massacring various royal relations, cabinet ministers, and members of the palace guards. It…
By Germar Rudolf, Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ April 1, 2013
Dipl-Chem. Germar Rudolf,*[1] Nicholas Kollerstrom MA Cantab., PhD, FRAS[2] This article was first submitted to the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal The Analyst. They rejected it on the grounds that it did not have enough about analysis. The authors then submitted it to Chemistry- a European Journal. It was rejected in less than 24 hours…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ December 1, 2012
By Erik Larson. Crown Publishing Group, New York, 2011, 448 pp. By June 1933, the “Nazis”—a new word in the world’s lexicon—had held power in Germany for almost six months, and were not expected to last, unlikely characters as virtually all of them were. The American ambassador to Germany had left his post shortly after…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ April 1, 2013
Safe Among the Germans: Liberated Jews After World War II, by Ruth Gay. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, 347 pp. Perhaps unintentionally, the title of this fascinating study of the infamous Displaced-Persons camps in postwar Germany is very generous to Germans. It suggests that, in some act of contrition, those Germans who survived World…
By Ezra Macvie ∙ October 1, 2012
The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Revised edition, Penguin Group, New York, 2010, 379 pp. This book is about the profound subjects of thinking, knowing, understanding, and then acting (or just as often, refraining from acting) on understanding. While it concentrates on how to think, know, and understand, it necessarily, and very valuably, strays…
By Henry Gardner ∙ April 1, 2013
The Case For Auschwitz, by Robert Jan van Pelt, Indiana University Press Bloomington, IN 2002. 570 pp., with notes, bibliography, indexed. It is strange that an event, or rather a series of events that have marked the history of the 20th century perhaps more strongly than any other with the possible exception of the annihilation…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 1, 2012
By Santiago Alvarez and Pierre Marais, The Barnes Review, Washington, D.C., 2011, 390 pp., illustrated, with notes, bibliography, indexed. The Gas Vans fills a significant hole in Holocaust literature, often forgotten in the public mind and limited to minor entries in the most important Holocaust tomes (gas vans are mentioned on 4 pages out of…
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