Thus Spake Kristol

On Sunday night, while listening to "€œFOX news contributors all"€ clarify our current financial crisis, I picked up a remark by William Kristol indicating that our stock ...

An Amicus Brief for Neville

On Sept. 30, 1938, 70 years ago, Neville Chamberlain visited Adolf Hitler’s apartment in Munich, got his signature on a three-sentence declaration and flew home to Heston ...

Killing Women and Children First

The anniversaries passed with little fanfare in America. No nation really likes to remember its crimes. Stories appeared about the bombings in the German and Japanese ...

Hitchens’s Trotskyite Morality

Did Hitler’s crimes justify the Allies’ terror-bombing of Germany? Indeed they did, answers Christopher Hitchens in his Newsweek response to my new book, Churchill, ...

Was the Holocaust Inevitable?

“What Would Winston Do?” So asks Newsweek‘s cover, which features a full-length photo of the prime minister his people voted the greatest Briton of them all. ...

The Court Historian of The Neoconservatives

Victor Davis Hanson has taken umbrage at Pat Buchanan’s description of him as “the court historian of the neoconservatives,” and even more umbrage at ...

The “€œGood War”€ and the Terrible Peace

In attacking my book Churchill, Hitler and ‘The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, Victor Davis Hanson, the court historian of the ...

What Is Nationalism?

Richard responded to one of my Eunomia posts on nationalism, and I have been slow in replying, but I think this question still deserves some attention even though we have batted ...

The Good War: A Cautionary Tale

Opinions vary with respect to the ongoing conflict in Iraq, but we can all agree that the struggle for Europe, 1939-45, was "€œthe Good War."€  Or can we?  Not if ...

The Truth About Munich

When President Bush, before the Knesset, used the word "€œappeasement"€ to label those who would negotiate with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he invoked the most powerful ...

Anti-Anticommunism

It is odd, to say the least, to read a colleague of mine at this site complaining of someone else’s idiosyncratic positions, as if we prized conformity and predictability ...

On Lukacs and Buchanan (Again)

Neocon.  Crank.  Appeaser.  Such are the terms that my colleagues have lately been heaping on John Lukacs in response to his review of Churchill, Hitler and the ...

Pat, John, and the Others

Having looked at the review of Pat's latest book by John Lukacs and the critical remarks offered by Takimag-contributors and having seen the defense of the American Conservative's ...

Lukacs, Buchanan, and “€œAnti-anticommunism”€

It's not particularly surprising that in his critique of Pat Buchanan's new book and highly controversial interpretation of Churchill, John Lukacs would reduce the Second World ...

How the West Lost the World

Had Britain not declared war on Aug. 4 and brought in Japan, Italy and the United States, the war would have ended far sooner. Leninism and Stalinism would never have triumphed in ...


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