What do you get when you cross Jeremiah with Cassandra? Solzhenitsyn
Thursday, August 17th, 2006Posted in History, People of interest | 45 Comments »
Archive for the 'History' Category
A debacle, indeed: revisiting the Iran embassy hostage rescue attempt
Thursday, May 18th, 2006Posted in History, Iran | 46 Comments »
On forgetting, unpersons, and doublethink: Milan Kundera and George Orwell
Thursday, April 20th, 2006Posted in Literature and writing, History | 50 Comments »
More Kipling: history repeats itself (”the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger”)
Friday, April 7th, 2006Posted in Literature and writing, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, History, People of interest | 11 Comments »
History reasserts itself, in rhyme
Thursday, March 30th, 2006Posted in History | 29 Comments »
When light pierced the darkness: Moslem rescuers during the Holocaust
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006Posted in History, Religion | 17 Comments »
The mosque bombing and its aftermath: civil war about civil war; pundits and predictions
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006Posted in History | 59 Comments »
Trust, but verify: David Irving and the writing of history
Saturday, February 11th, 2006Posted in History | 51 Comments »
Those who cannot learn from history are condemned…
Saturday, November 19th, 2005Posted in Iraq, History, Vietnam | 46 Comments »
Stalemate: the German elections
Thursday, September 22nd, 2005Posted in History | 22 Comments »
The MSM and Lincoln
Thursday, June 9th, 2005Posted in Press, History | 22 Comments »
Ivan Illych, now and then
Saturday, May 7th, 2005Posted in Literature and writing, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, History | 3 Comments »
Talabani, the Kurds, and the Jews
Thursday, April 7th, 2005Posted in Iraq, History, Jews | 24 Comments »
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