Western Civilization Is Destroying Its Historical Heritage, Part V
Anton von Werner, The Proclamation of the German Empire (1885). The rise of the German Empire coincided with the rise of German historicism. Both presented a new challenge to British and French world...
View ArticleThe Ukrainian Spring Offensive So Far
2,440 words The Ukrainian counteroffensive is underway. Don’t get your hopes up. When the American-led coalition went on the offensive against the Iraqi military during the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91,...
View ArticleSüssical: Jud Süß, Part 1
2,943 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) I’ve reviewed Munchhausen and Grosse Freiheit Nummer 7, films produced in the Third Reich that avoided discussing National Socialist philosophy regarding Jews....
View ArticleSüssical: Jud Süß, Part 2
1,473 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Harlan’s film, unlike Mendes’, was an enormous box office success,[1] and it is said that concentration camp guards and the SS were shown this film to remind them...
View ArticleThe Bard Across Three Reichs: Germany, Shakespeare, and Andreas Höfele’s No...
4,825 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Andreas Höfele No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016 The hardest book reviews to write are those...
View ArticleThe Bard Across Three Reichs: Germany, Shakespeare, and Andreas Höfele’s No...
Johann (Jan) Toorop, Stefan George, 1896; George took great pride in the fact that his profile favored that of Dante’s. 4,669 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Stefan George’s Dead Poets Society The...
View ArticleMetapolitics in Germany, Part 1: An Exclusive Interview with Frank Kraemer of...
3,127 words Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here) Frank is now 46 years old and has been politically active for more than 30 years. He was once more active in politics, but since 2016 he has been exclusively...
View ArticleMetapolitics in Germany, Part 2: An Exclusive Interview with Frank Kraemer of...
Frank Kraemer and Nana Domena 2,308 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) Ondrej Mann: Which nationalist projects in Germany do you consider the most important and valuable? Frank Kraemer: One is the...
View ArticleThe Unnecessary War
2,326 words Patrick J. Buchanan Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World New York: Random House, 2008 See also: “The Collapse of British...
View ArticlePlastic Patriotism: Propaganda and the Establishment’s Crusade Against...
2,014 words Erik Kirschbaum Burning Beethoven: The Eradication of German Culture in the United States during World War I New York: Berlinica Publishing, 2014 Much ink has been spilled over the travails...
View ArticleThe Worst Week Yet: September 24-30, 2023
Dayjia “Meatball” Blackwell 2,221 words Obese She-Boon Known as “Meatball” Livestreams Philly Looting Spree We begin our week in Philadelphia, which was America’s birthplace but is rapidly becoming its...
View ArticleEva Herman, 17 Years Later
Eva Herman in 2006 2,811 words Herman’s real point is that women should not be forced to work by social or financial pressures, but should instead receive, for example, a housewife’s salary or higher...
View ArticleA Plague on Both Your Houses
1,988 words The Israeli military is poised to undertake ground operations in Gaza at any moment. At least that’s what is being touted by almost every Israel-friendly media outlet in the world. I have a...
View ArticleSahra Wagenknecht and Alternative for Germany: The German Right’s Dilemma
Sahra Wagenknecht 1,435 words It is amusing in a depressing sort of way to watch the current about-turn of the German political Right regarding Sahra Wagenknecht. Wagenknecht was a well-known...
View ArticleThe Third World War Begins
John Martin, The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1822) 1,742 words Events in the Middle East continue to escalate. As the great powers of the present day continue their mobilization of...
View ArticleMust Jews Be Able to Feel Safe in Germany?
1,966 words The struggle against every form of anti-Semitism — from the Left and Islamically motivated — it is our governmental and civic obligation . . . Der Kampf gegen jede Form von...
View ArticleHitler the Peacemaker, Part 1: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War
2,781 words Part 1 of 5 (Part 2 here) David L. Hoggan The Forced War: When Peaceful Revision Failed, 2nd ed. Newport Beach, Calif.: Institute for Historical Review, 2023 David Hoggan (1923-1988) was an...
View ArticleHitler the Peacemaker, Part 2: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War
David L. Hoggan 4,041 words Part 2 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here) Given that both the United States and the Soviet Union were far larger and more powerful than Germany, and that the British themselves...
View ArticleHitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 3
Joseph Stalin and Joachim von Ribbentrop during the signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact on August 23, 1939. 1,852 words Part 3 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here) By August 1939,...
View ArticleHitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 4
Winston Churchill and Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax 1,907 words Part 4 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here, Part 5 here) Hitler’s cancellation of military operations for August 26 left him with only five...
View ArticleHitler the Peacemaker: David L. Hoggan’s The Forced War, Part 5
Hitler issuing his declaration of war against Poland in the Reichstag on September 1, 1939. 2,746 words Part 5 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here) A German war with Poland was now a certainty, but a new...
View ArticleSometimes the Ship Has to Sink for the Rats to Desert
1,181 words There is no lord so high in the land, that he does not live by farmer’s hand. — German farmers’ wisdom The second week of January 2024 is seeing nationwide protests by farmers, truckers,...
View ArticleRemigration: Alternative for Germany and a Path Toward a Self-Confident...
From Martin Sellner’s (left) English-language Telegram channel. 2,192 words Left-wing German media outlet Correctiv reported on January 12 about a private meeting that happened last November in...
View ArticleCaught in a Time Loop: The Eternal Return of Leftist Hysteria
An anti-AfD rally that was held in Berlin earlier this month. 1,315 words It’s 2016-2020 all over again, it would seem. Those were the years when the German mainstream media did not go one day without...
View ArticleThe Worst Week Yet: March 10-16, 2024
Vaughan Gething, the newly-elected First Minister of Wales. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.) 2,228 words Wales Elects a Black Leader — the First of Any European Country ’Twas but a century ago...
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