Is the Holocaust a taboo? If so, where, and to what extent? Is it a good taboo worth preserving, or a bad one which needs to be fought? Read on…
By Michael A. Hoffman ∙ October 7, 2017
In September of 2017 we found ourselves in the midst of the American Library Association’s annual “Banned Books Week,” the eponymous celebration of books forbidden by censors and pressure groups in the United States. While the event purports to focus on volumes deemed too dangerous for impressionable minds, the daring entries showcased this year included…
By Ralph Raico ∙ September 1, 1989
“Speaking truth to power” is not easy when you support that power. Perhaps this is the reason why so few Western historians are willing to tell the whole truth about state crimes during this century. Last fall [1988 —Ed.] the Moscow News reported the discovery by two archaeologist-historians of mass graves at Kuropaty, near Minsk,…
By Ken Meyercord ∙ February 6, 2016
As Galileo engaged in his examination of the solar system with the aid of a newly invented scientific instrument, the telescope, he must have known his heliocentric theory of the solar system, if accepted, would destroy many Christians’ belief system. Was that the purpose of his investigations? We can never know for sure, but I…
By Jett Rucker ∙ May 17, 2012
A professor at George Mason University is making waves with a "laboratory" course he has been teaching for a few years now in how historical mythology is created, with emphasis, of course, on present-day media and environments such as the Internet. This article in The Atlantic describes the course and its import very well. But…
By Jett Rucker ∙ November 24, 2015
Carmen Bretin Lindemann Even though the Holocaust took place entirely in the northern hemisphere, eastern half, its reach now spans the globe, and has at least since 1960, when Israel’s Mossad snatched Adolf Eichmann from his self-imposed exile in the southern hemisphere, western half (Argentina) and smuggled him to Israel, where a gallows awaited him….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ July 1, 1996
Doubtless you've seen the stories: the French Olympic “synchronized swimming” team in Atlanta, goose-stepping poolside to themes from Schindler's List, then diving in for their arrival at the death camps, the selection by Dr. Mengele and company, and the last march to the showers (or was it the bath tubs?). No, this one wasn't going…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ May 1, 1996
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in his 1851 volume, Parerga and Parlipomena, of Omar's [c. 581 – 644. Second of the Mohammedan caliphs] burning of the library at Alexandria as follows: Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long survive their mother. Omar understood that when he burned the library at…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ April 1, 1996
The Daily Sun at Cornell ran the 46 Unanswered Questions ad for five weeks in February and March. Cornell is the largest campus in the Ivy League. The Ivy League schools are arguably the most influential in America. On 19 February the Sun ran a defensive editorial saying the ad “suggested the Nazi death camps…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ February 1, 1995
The Joe Bob Report (PO Box 2002, Dallas TX 75221, $3 for a sample copy), a newsletter dedicated to the conservation of a threatened American cultural institution, the drive-in movie theater, ran an interesting article about the high school kids in Oakland who were taken to see Schindler's List and laughed at all the wrong…
By Kerry R. Bolton ∙ July 1, 2013
Third Reich “scholarship” is measured against a de facto axiom that it must be centered around the Holocaust, with concomitant discussions on medical experiments, and other aspects of a supposedly uniquely “Nazi” brutality. Anything less is branded by watchdog “scholars” such as Deborah Lipstadt as “relativizing the Holocaust,” which is apparently even worse than “Holocaust…
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