Archive for the 'History' Category

What do you get when you cross Jeremiah with Cassandra? Solzhenitsyn

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

A debacle, indeed: revisiting the Iran embassy hostage rescue attempt

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

On forgetting, unpersons, and doublethink: Milan Kundera and George Orwell

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

More Kipling: history repeats itself (”the burnt Fool’s bandaged finger”)

Friday, April 7th, 2006

History reasserts itself, in rhyme

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

When light pierced the darkness: Moslem rescuers during the Holocaust

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

The mosque bombing and its aftermath: civil war about civil war; pundits and predictions

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Trust, but verify: David Irving and the writing of history

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Those who cannot learn from history are condemned…

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

Stalemate: the German elections

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

The MSM and Lincoln

Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Ivan Illych, now and then

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

Talabani, the Kurds, and the Jews

Thursday, April 7th, 2005

About Me

Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely leaving the fold and becoming that dread thing: a neocon.
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