Willis Carto, Sugar Daddy to Holocaust Deniers, Is Dead
From the SPLC: According to reports from white nationalists, Willis Carto, a man active on the radical right for more than 60 years, has died, aged 89. Carto was one…
Denialism and My Comments Policy
On the first day of my college freshman physics class, my professor brought out a boxful of letters from cranks. He read one of them out. It was from a man…
Steve Shives’s Five Stupid Things About Holocaust Denial
I dedicate this post to someone who's recently taken to trip-trapping on my bridge uninvited. Take it away, Mr. Shives: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrxxZunGwtM] What he said.
The Double Life of David Cole
Denial, an audio play I wrote a some years back, was a fictionalized documentary whose main character, Ari Fleischman, was based partly on real Holocaust denier David Cole. At the…
How Far Is Too Far For An Artist?
Charles Krafft's response to the charge that he's a Holocaust denier raises the question of how audiences respond to artists they once admired once their opinions go round the twist.…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
A thousand apologies for skipping a day's pondering, but my energies have been focused on a screenplay version of an audio drama I did a couple of years ago called Denial.…