The English author John Le Carré is best known for his novels of Cold-War espionage. His most famous character, George Smiley, has the following to say on the subject: The obsession of the two great economic systems with each other’s identity, intentions, strengths, and weaknesses had produced by the 1970s a state of mutual watchfulness […]
Portfolio Items Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Free Speech Victoria Saker Woeste Stanford University Press, 2012 “‘The Jews Try Ford!’ headlined a banner advertisement in the New York Evening Graphic” (ibid.). On the evening of March 27, 1927, Henry Ford was doing what a lot of other Americans were doing, […]
That the works of Martin Heidegger might not take pride of place in any Jewish library is axiomatic. Heidegger has been associated with the Nazis from the time of his short tenure as Chancellor of German universities which began in 1932. This was an appointment sanctioned by Hitler himself, and from that moment Heidegger was […]
An old English story, part-joke and part-apocrypha, tells of a retired American couple who take a vacation to England. Visiting the famous university city of Cambridge, they admire the ancient architecture before walking into the courtyard of one of the famous colleges. Admiring the perfect lawn, the pair spy a grounds-keeper and ask him how […]
The rise of secular society in the West seems undeniable, and although the 1960s may not be the decade which created secularism, it certainly fed it an accelerant. It was not just sexual and social liberation combining with new-found wealth which favored materialism over spiritualism, however, and even the Anglican Church was beginning to have […]
Now that immigration has become the greatest concern in the rather archaically named United Kingdom, the name of Enoch Powell is once again a familiar one in what passes for political discourse in Britain. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in a recent speech intended to show that he is suddenly concerned about illegal immigration, claimed that […]
