WSJ 8/4/2018 by Bryony Clarke In the summer of 1944 a delegation of Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann, hosted representatives from the International Red Cross at Terezin concentration camp. The visit had been meticulously planned: gardens planted, barracks renovated, streets cleared. Thousands of prisoners were deported eastward to reduce overcrowding. The elaborately staged tour, held on June 23, culminated with a... Read more
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Jane Austen and Sexual Harassment
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationAs a late Jane Austen fan… this is very good. ======= WSJ 1/2/2018 If you’re struggling to make sense of the sexual-harassment issues swirling around us, you could do worse than read Jane Austen. I was struck by this recently while teaching what she called her “rather too light and bright and sparkling” novel, “Pride and Prejudice.” Consider the portion of the novel... Read more
Calling Alabama Women
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Noonan, Republican(s), Western CivilizationShe always makes me think. ==== WSJ 11/18/2017 Peggy Noonan Alabama has its back up, or at least its Republicans and conservatives do, and it’s understandable. They don’t like when Northerners and liberals and people in Washington tell them who their senator should be. They don’t like when reporters from outside come down and ask questions and turn over rocks looking for what’s crawling... Read more
How Martin Luther Advanced Freedom
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | Christianity, Religion, Western CivilizationWSJ – 10/27/2017 Martin Luther was an unlikely revolutionary for human freedom. When the Augustinian monk hammered his “Ninety-Five Theses” to the Wittenberg Castle Church on Oct. 31, 1517— and unleashed the Protestant Reformation—he was still committed to the spiritual authority of the Catholic Church and retained many of the prejudices of European Christianity. Yet Luther’s personal experience of God’s love and... Read more
The Computer that could Rule the World
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Technology, Western CivilizationThis makes me nervous. ====== WSJ – 10/28/2017 By Arthur Herman During World War II the federal government launched the Manhattan Project to ensure the U.S. would possess the first atomic bomb. Seventy-five years later, America is in another contest just as vital to national security, the economy and even the future of liberal democracy. It’s the race to build the first fully operational... Read more
