By William Halvorsen ∙ June 1, 2002
THE VISALIA RECORD MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2001 ***** TODAY'S FORECAST: Blustery Today's SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION is written by the students and teachersof the 3rd grade at Judge Gray Elementary School Today's Headlines: Is Santa Claus a Hoax? Toilets Overflow in Boys Room The Busdriver's Hamster Died LEAD STORY Is Santa Claus a Hoax? Children at…
By William Halvorsen ∙ May 1, 2001
In spite of what their enemies might think, there weren't too many revisionists who were worked up about this year's presidential election. In general, there didn't seem to be any big concern over the fact that Al Gore had picked a Jewish running mate, and even in the immediate aftermath of Election Night there weren't…
By William Halvorsen ∙ February 1, 2001
Suppose one day you opened your Sunday paper and found out that a bunch of activist Christians had gotten together and taken out an ad declaring that Judaism was not responsible for the Russian Revolution. You would probably think they were a little bit crazy to even say that, the second thing you might think…
By William Halvorsen ∙ March 1, 2000
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., an Errol Morris Film Against the baritone backdrop of Fred Leuchter's reminiscences, film maker Errol Morris takes a journey inside the mind of the brilliant engineer of execution systems in “Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.” The film is…
By William Halvorsen ∙ August 1, 2000
While America Watches: Televising the Holocaust, Jeffrey Shandler, Oxford UP, 1999 Everyone knows at this point that the Holocaust has been promoted to such an extent that one can hardly turn around without running into Holocaust imagery of some kind. Any time there is a massacre anywhere, you can bet that some talking head will…
By William Halvorsen ∙ August 1, 2000
We in America are so used to having the Holocaust bulk large as the preeminent symbol of inhumanity that we tend to forget that there are about 5 billion people outside of the reach of Western Civilization who just don't see Twentieth Century history the way we do. Recent events in Asia demonstrate the culture…
By William Halvorsen ∙ January 1, 2000
The publication of Pat Buchanan's book, A Republic, Not an Empire, coming with Buchanan's departure from the Republican Party in order to seek the presidential nomination of the Reform Party, has created the opportunity for Buchanan's critics to come crawling out of the woodwork with the usual arguments concerning the supposed anti-Semitism and extremism of…
By William Halvorsen ∙ November 1, 1999
Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life Some years ago, a leading Holocaust historian, Deborah Dwork spoke at a memorial to “Crystal Night” in British Columbia, the night in November 1938 when Nazi mobs, inspired by the murder of a German foreign official by a Polish Jew, destroyed hundreds of Jewish stores and shops. According…
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