The recent pillorying of John Derbyshire and Bob Weissberg after being accused of making tactless remarks about race recalled a question that's been bothering me for decades. Why should we think that race is the only untouchable subject or the only issue that, to use George Will's misleading ...
Unlike Rich Lowry's predictably PC response to John Derbyshire's controversial article on what parents should tell their kids about race, I was less than "appalled" by it. John's judgments are not entirely mine, and unlike my good friend I probably would stop (and I hope my grown-up ...
Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane headed from London to DC, I was desperate enough to grab that garish British tabloid the Daily Mail when the stewardess offered it to me. On page four, I noticed a column by a renowned critic of Third World immigration, ...
Much to the consternation of Western intellectuals and journalists, Hungary's government sponsors a House of Terror in Budapest which dares to devote attention to not only Nazi crimes, but also Stalinist ones. Ever since the ascendance of the "antifascist" (read: neo-Stalinist plus PC) ...
As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society's national meeting in April, featuring wall-to-wall denunciations of "America and Her Detractors," I wondered whether all anti-Americanism is the same. At one time there were communist sympathizers who adored the Soviets for whatever ...
I attended an event for Pat Buchanan and his biographer Tim Stanley at DC's Politics and Prose Bookstore on February 17. After Tim and Pat's informative presentations, the audience was invited to ask questions. Most of the questions seemed to come from admiring remnants of the Buchanan ...
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A vastly underexplored topic is the British government's role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally comfortable judgment that "authoritarian Germany" unleashed the Great War out of militaristic arrogance. ...
In his recent syndicated column "A U.N. for the good guys," Jonah Goldberg evokes the mindset of seventeenth-century puritanism. This is entirely understandable. Much of what the American left teaches, including its neoconservative element, resembles American Calvinism"albeit in a ...
In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward the libertarian right and was fighting censorship in his “democratic” society. Junge Freiheit had been kept from exhibiting its ...
Political correctness has permeated the historian’s craft to such a degree that honest historians must reinvent the wheel. PC has infected German history in particular. The doctrine of German “collective guilt” is often held as a precondition for German good behavior. Established historians ...
