fritz gerlich AND THE MUNICH PRESS

This Holocaust Memorial Day I find myself thinking of those brave Munich journalists, from the left and from the right, both Jewish and gentile, who from 1920 to 1933 tried to raise the alarm about the strange demagogue in their midst. Newspapers like the leftwing Munich Post and the conservative Der Gerade Weg (The Straight […]

TILTING AT STATUES: ON THE DECLINE OF RACISM IN THE WEST

PART ONE: VISION It may be optimistic merely to suggest that racial or ethnic issues can be discussed rationally. Evidence to the contrary is all too abundant in the strident and sweeping condemnations directed against many who have tried to do so. —Thomas Sowell We live in a time when men, driven by mediocre, ferocious […]

The Truth Matters Also

I beseech you, dear reader, to read Jonathan Capehart’s brave and noble piece in the Washington Post about the shooting of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson. The US Justice Department released two reports this week, one into the shooting, and one with a wider remit looking into policing in Ferguson. The latter found a […]