… Genocidal Mind. That project does not appear to have been completed, but now, a quarter century later, Goldhagen’s … that led them to conclude that the Jews ought to die,” a thesis that, according to the author, “stands in … accumulated during the Weimar years, and that generals, who willingly contributed to the extinction of Soviet …
Criticism
… the “ X ”—above which is written the number of people who died, and to the side of which is a written a “Yes” or “No” … when you see the stretch of tents and couches that has become an open-air homeless shelter beneath a highway … writing in a time when these anachronistic and surreal tragedies occur, when modernity in its most innocuous forms has …
… new writings on the subject of military policy are uncommonly well written and accessible. Jonathan Schell’s The … Consider, he asks, how a person in a targeted country might die. He or she might be reduced to charcoal by the fireball, … interrelationships of life and environment, as Schell points out, the more nearly the two must be thought of as …
Essays
… of “Naftali,” his Hebrew name, which ordinarily would come after his first one: Anatole Naftali. He used it only … or were simply unable to get exit papers and consequently died within the next few years, his father of sickness and … 2010, a distant relative contacted me through an ancestry website and sent me a document that identifies the date on …
… Edited by Allen Nevins. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $5.00. Polk. The Diary of a President. 1845-49. … opinion declares, is not primarily a matter of individuals ; it is a matter of social forces and mass movements of … figure. And is not this the purpose of biography? 122-126 By Dexter Perkins …
Fine Distinctions
… Solstice vs. Equinox When it comes to the workings of the universe, Albert Einstein … its position relative to the stars so that, over a nearly 26,000-year cycle, Earth’s north pole points to different places in the sky, which yields minor …