Richard J Evans On Conspiracy Theory And the Reichstag Fire
A fascinating article on the Reichstag Fire by historian Richard J Evans appears in the London Review of Books. An excerpt: The Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.…
The Things I’ve Seen (April 2014 Edition)
Here's what I viddied on a screen in April 2014. Gravity: A spectacular real-time (or close enough) story of survival. I admired Sandra Bullock's performance as a rookie astronaut struggling…
The Stories We Told After Adolf Eichmann’s Capture
Six days from now we'll have reached the 44th anniversary of the Mossad's capture of SS Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who'd been hiding in Argentina since the end of World…
With One Click, You Too Can Be A Guru
Anyone who's caught Deepak Chopra on a chat show has heard the New Age rap, a stew of religious patter and scientific sounding buzzwords. Spoken with style, the showy incoherencies that are Chopra's…
I Saw The Unknown Known
Many of the early reviews of Errol Morris's The Unknown Known (which I saw just a little while ago thanks to iTunes) compared it to Morris's The Fog Of War. The comparison…
Win a Signed Copy of Summer of Long Knives at Goodreads
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Happy Campers of the Third Reich
Shorpy dug up this Heinrich Hoffmann photo of Hitler Youth on a camping excursion from 1938. Smiles and swastikas are an uneasy mix at best. Hoffmann, incidentally, was Adolf Hitler's…
I’ll Let Someone Else Tell You For the 11,341st Time: The US is Not A Police State
Being a blogger quickly teaches you how poor a weapon blogging is for killing off zombie ideas. Still, try we must. A little bit ago, I addressed myself to Doctor Ben…
The Things I’ve Seen (in March)
My movie diet was a little thin in March, but there were still good titles in there, a couple of disappointments, and one film that caused DEEP HURTING. [youtube=://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjCjgjk9n0o&w=420&h=315] The…
Judging A Book By Its Cover
I don't know too much about Lion and Leopard, the book I just received from Dactyl Review, but I do know this. The cover is damn handsome. I'll be reviewing this for…