By Jett Rucker ∙ March 18, 2017
The advent of the printing press, and of literacy among the faithful, impelled the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church to issue what came to be called an Index, or the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. This Index was a list of (published) works that the faithful were abjured by His Holiness from reading. These works were…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 16, 2017
There’s a ray of hopeful light coming today from London’s Telegraph newspaper: an article from columnist Stephen Pollard titled “Why I, Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Think Anti-Semites Should Be Allowed on YouTube.” It’s a voice of reason coming from a quarter from which one would not expect to hear it (and one often hears…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 13, 2017
They’re everywhere—probably even in the camera and microphone of the laptop on your kitchen table (yes, it has both, even if you didn’t know it). Oh, wait! That would be the NSA, or the FBI, or … yes, Amazon. They’re all the same thing these days, you know. But never mind spying. Everyone is doing…
By Jett Rucker ∙ March 12, 2017
We might have seen this coming as long ago as 2010, when Amazon Network Services dropped its new client, Wikileaks, just as soon as the redoubtable Senator Joseph Lieberman cast a disapproving glance at it. In fact, now I think about it, I did sense this coming. And here it is, full-blown less than seven…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 28, 2017
Evidently, the hard-earned tax dollars of United States taxpayers are being expended to purchase and make available to America’s reading public, books that Yad Vashem and others have exposed to be Holocaust-denial books! Lately, we’ve heard the hue and cry that Amazon is peddling books advocating Holocaust denial (and would Amazon kindly remove such material…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 27, 2017
A reader of my summer 2016 article in Inconvenient History, “How the Allies Launched the Holocaust at Casablanca in 1943” opined sophomorically that, in view of subsequent events, how much grief and destruction the Germans might have spared themselves if they had, as was there and then demanded of them, just thrown down their arms…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 24, 2017
We hear (constantly) that European and hence, American anti-Semitism is an ancient and irrational tradition. Yet, when a modern state, Germany in 1933, sought to separate and, yes, marginalize a minority in the midst of its populace through law, where did they look for the state of that art? Yes, of course: the cradle of…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 5, 2017
Two US presidential elections are documented as having been stolen by foreign powers. In fact, both elections were stolen by the same power: Great Britain—the very regime, independence from which the American Revolution supposedly was fought. And its agenda was the same both times: to draw the US into a conflict with Germany on its…
By Jett Rucker ∙ February 3, 2017
President Donald Trump takes evident pride in his daughter Ivanka, who converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner, a young Jewish man Trump has since recruited into his inner circle of advisors. Trump has promised/threatened to move the US embassy in Israel from the internationally recognized capital city of Tel Aviv to the city…
By Jett Rucker ∙ January 26, 2017
Revisionism, like history on a good day, is a gentle art. Or not. History and the revision thereof can sometimes engage passionate agents from both within the profession (of history) and without (novelists, ethnic activists, the intensely curious). This tempest, notionally, occurs within the ambit of historiography—what happened when, to whom, how, why, at the…
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