Tag Archives: History

Eichmann Endures

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Lee

Jerry Burger at Santa Clara University, has succeeded in partially replicating Stanley Milgram’s famous social obedience experiment, whereby test subjects torture strangers with electrical shocks when told to do so. Depressingly, mankind appears to remain as obedient to evil as … Continue reading →

Posted in social science | Tagged 1961, Adolf Eichmann, Americans, evil, History, individualism, Jerry Burger, Milgram experiment, obedience, psychology, rebellion, Santa Clara University, social control, social obedience, Stanley Milgram, United States | 1 Comment

An Appointment with Defeat

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Lee

Blagojevich’s senate appointment might not be as valuable to a political career as he seemed to believe. Nate Silver takes a systematic look at senators who were appointed to fill vacant seats by governors over the last fifty years, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged Blagojevich, Domestic Politics, elections, gubernatorial appointment, History, incumbents, Nate Silver, united states senate | Leave a comment

The Third Party Personality Disorder

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Lee

I found myself complaining to a Libertarian colleague of mine today (note the capital ‘L’), about the deplorable political consensus that has emerged on the bailout strategy for economic resuscitation. The bipartisan policy is a ghastly trifecta of the ineffective, … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Libertarianism | Tagged bailout strategy, bob barr, Catch-22, Economics, elections, electoral politics, Eugene Debs, George Wallace, Harry Browne, History, Jesse Ventura, John B. Anderson, Joseph Heller, Kinky Friedman, Libertarian Party, libertarians, michael badnarik, Republican, Ross Perot, Theodore Roosevelt, third pary, voter behavior, voters | 1 Comment

Athens into Persepolis

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Lee

Rasmussen has polled the public on whether they agreed with President Bush’s characterization of capitalism as the “highway to the American Dream.” Only 44% voiced support for capitalism, 33% were undecided and 22% expressed opposition. A grim finding. Only Republicans … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, History | Tagged American Dream, Athens, Bush, capitalism, Carthage, Democrats, Economics, enemy, free market, History, Persepolis, poll, Rasmussen, Republicans, Rome | 1 Comment

The Voice of Murder

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Lee

The subject of the bloody 1965 Indonesian mass murder of suspected communists is not often openly discussed history even in today’s Indonesia. Given the pervasive silence, estimates vary on the actual number of people killed, but it’s generally accepted as … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, History | Tagged 1965, antidemocratic, Asian communism, Associated Press, Autocracy, banyan tree, Cambodia, China, CIA, clove cigarettes, communism, communist, Darmo, death tool, decapitation, democracy, freedom, Hamid, History, Indonesia, Indonesian, Indonesian massacre, islam, Islamic clerics, Javanese sarong, mass graves, mass murder, murder, Nahdlatul Ulama, nationalism, PKI, pogrom, preemptive murder, prisoners, purge, Quran, religion, sledgehammer, Suharto, Sukarno, Sulchan, US, Vietnam | 1 Comment

The 2048 Election

Posted on November 5, 2008 by Lee

Barack Obama has been president-elect for exactly one day and James Carville is already arguing for an inevitable Democratic majority for the next 40 years. Imagine predicting Jim’s claim to fame, the 1992 election, from the vantage of 1952, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics | Tagged 1952, 1992, 2048, Barack Obama, democracy, democratic, election, History, James Carville, Karl Rove | 1 Comment

The New Russian Diplomacy of Profanity

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Lee

Russian FM Sergei Lavrov reportedly went berserk on David Miliband in phone discussions over the Georgia war. Apparently he was raving, shouting obscenities, and ridiculing Miliband’s knowledge of history. There’s something incredibly deranged about that government. They’ve taken the traditional … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs | Tagged Britain, David Miliband, diplomacy, foreign secretary, Georgia, History, invasion, Putinism, Russia, Sergei Lavrov, UK, United Kingdom, war | Leave a comment

A Republican Atavism

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Lee

John Podhoretz thinks the Palin speech might be among the most dazzling debuts in American political history. I don’t know about that, but I do know it was the most powerful, important, and effective speech by a vice presidential candidate … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic Politics, Election 2008, History, Media | Tagged American, Checkers, Democrats, Eisenhower, History, John Podhoretz, Macleans, Media, Nixon, Palin, Pearl Harbor, Richard Nixon, Sarah Palin, speech, Yamamoto | 2 Comments

Ethnostatism Fails

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Lee

The movement of “ethnic studies” curricula from colleges to public schools, is something that troubles many of us who have experienced such classes in modern times. Ethnic studies programs are often called “multiculturalist,” but since they tend to be monoethnic … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Education, Lee's Page | Tagged academia, academic, American history, Arizona, Arizona Republic, astrology, astronomy, Che Guevara, colleges, cultural, curriculum, Department of Education Reform, Doug Maceachern, ethnic studies, ethnostatism, fascism, government, History, Jay P. Greene, math, monoethnic, multiculturalism, non sequitur, political, public schools, raza studies, trigonometry, Tucson, Tucson Union School District, TUSD, University of Arkansas | 1 Comment

Life Under Stalinism

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Lee

Video clip of victims of the Terror recounting their experiences at the hands of the secret police. The levity that many exhibit in revisiting the systematic decimation of human dignity they experienced, is the ageless strength of Russia as a … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Lee's Page | Tagged documentary, Eric Bogosian, Great Terror, History, secret police, Soviet Union, Stalin, stalinism, victims, video, youtube, Zareh Tjeknavorian | Leave a comment

Defending the Second World War

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Lee

Here’s a five part Uncommon Knowledge segment featuring a superb pairing of Christopher Hitchens and Victor Davis Hanson, to discuss the new World War II revisionism led by Pat Buchanan. While it’s an entertaining exercise for a Saturday, I’ll warn … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Christopher Hitchens, fascism, History, Pat Buchanan, Peter Robinson, revisionism, Uncommon Knowledge, Victor Davis Hanson, video, World War II, youtube | Leave a comment

The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion, by Paddy Docherty

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Joshua Foust

This book was written entirely in the passive voice. The passive voice was used to avoid assigning causation or personhood to various events. As a result, we learn that places were invaded, people were slaughtered, armies were founded, but no … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Foreign affairs | Tagged Afghanistan, Books, Central Asia, History, Iran, Pakistan | Leave a comment

George Lakoff: Neo-Syndicalist

Posted on June 23, 2008 by MichaelW

Over the weekend I read with fascination William Saletan’s review of the new offering from George Lakoff, “The Political Mind,” and was struck by the remarkable similarities between it and the revolutionary syndicalism espoused during the prior fin de siècle. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, History, Libertarianism, MichaelW's Page, Philosophy, social science | Tagged "The Political Mind", anti-rationalism, Barack Obama, collectivism, communism, Domestic Politics, Election 2008, fascism, fin de siecle, George Lakoff, History, individualism, langauge, Libertarianism, progressive movement, social myth, socialism, syndicalism, William Saletan | 5 Comments

Why the Taliban Cease Fire Won’t Matter

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Joshua Foust

Published first at Registan.net, this is the culmination of some research I’ve been doing into the nature and history of Pashtun tribal militancy. It draws from a mixture of out-of-print ethnocgraphic and geographic surveys, as well as contemporary news accounts, … Continue reading →

Posted in Foreign affairs, History | Tagged Afghanistan, British, History, military, Pakistan, Pashtunistan, Taliban | Leave a comment

To Understand Them, You Must Know Them

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Lance

As Ron Paul’s more disturbing and radical views are emerging, especially how closely he has associated himself with the Mises Institute, it might behoove those of us who consider ourselves on the libertarian side of things to more closely examine … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Lance's Page, Libertarianism | Tagged George Washington, History, Mises Institute, Murray Rothbard | 2 Comments

Perhaps we’re turning into Victorians

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Synova

Or: What I Learned About the World from Reading Historical Romances. I learned that sometimes people get *more* uptight over time rather than less. Victorians, according to custom and any number of novels, were concerned with propriety above all. Certain … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, History, Society, Synova's Page | Tagged Culture, Domestic Politics, Historical romance, History | Leave a comment

Just Imagine

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Peg

(Cross posted at Whatif?) George Santayana told us: “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” What on earth do you do, though, with those who never learned any history in the first place? A fifth of … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Education, History, Peg's Page | Tagged Education, Florence Nightengale, History, Richard the Lionheart, Santayana, Sherlock Holmes, Winston Churchill | 7 Comments

Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Lee

photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: “Globalization implies subjugation of the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Economics, History, Lee's Page | Tagged 1918, Berlin, capitalism, communism, Economics, Europe, facism, French, History, Kraft durch Freude, market, materialism, money, noneconomic, Peter Drucker, Philosophy, progress, socialism, Sweden, Thomas Barnett, war, World War I, World War II | 5 Comments

The Terrible Human Toll

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Lance

In the annals of excruciating misery during wartime, few events can compare with what befell Napoleon’s troops during his campaign in Russia. From Strange Maps we see the suffering and tragedy in graphic statistical form. (click image to enlarge) “The … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Lance's Page | Tagged geography, Grande Armée, History, Napoleon, Russia, scorched earth, Statistics | Leave a comment

Wither MLK?

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Lee

Henry Louis Taylor on the evaporation of common knowledge about Martin Luther King, Jr: “No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this guy had a dream. We don’t know what that dream was.”

Posted in Around the Web | Tagged civil rights, Henry Louis Taylor, History, Martin Luther King | Leave a comment

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Lance

Echoing a wonderful discussion we had in the fall of 2006 on the nature of Fascism (see here, here and here) Jonah Goldberg writes a book which bristles at the use of the term by the contemporary left. I would … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Culture, Domestic Politics, History, Lance's Page | Tagged capitalism, Domestic Politics, fascism, FDR, Germany, History, Hitler, Italy, left, liberalism, Mussolini, National Socialism, right, Roosevelt, socialism | 15 Comments

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