Amateur history for (a) future historian(s)
Was peace doomed from the beginning? Or did the ‘economic consequences’ of the peace undermine the achievements of the peacemakers? How valid are the criticisms of Keynes? After reading the materials for this week, I remain convinced that the key failure of the Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles was economic, i.e., that the …
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Here’s my first discussion post for the term: Was there a danger that the Bolshevik Revolution would spread from Russia in the period 1917-1920? Stipulating up front that hindsight always provides 20/20 vision, I have to conclude that there was virtually no danger that the Bolshevik Revolution would spread beyond Russia in the aftermath of …
Turns out I’m returning to coursework in a few weeks, thanks to a scholarship that came through at the last minute and that will pay for my next course, entitled “Shadow of Versailles (1919-1939).” I’m currently planning on writing on the topic of the Jewish Bund in Romania after WWI. This topic is a pretty …
Simul-blogged at Holocaust ControversiesA couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan administration Treasury official, was dancing tantalizingly close to flat-out Holocaust denial. He’s back again, now defending the choice of libertarian activist and one-time California gubernatorial candidate Ron Unz to publish David Irving’s Hitler’s War on his website, Unz.com, which publishes a variety …
Yesterday, I did a show with leftie podcaster Dissident Peasant (whom you should support — really). Unlike my last interview, this one is priced affordably (it’s free). Click and enjoy. Actual Brownshirts With ThamesDarwin https://t.co/821ADBvxUf via @JeffHisDudeness — Thames Darwin (@thamesdarwin) May 31, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Simul-blogged at Holocaust Controversies You probably missed, but there was a bit of a dust-up a couple of days ago on Twitter. What happened was that, about a month ago, New Atheist Sam Harris hosted Christian Picciolini on his podcast. Picciolini is a former leader of the Hammerskins skinhead group who reformed several years ago …
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Simulblogged at Holocaust Controversies If you’ve never heard of Paul Craig Roberts, don’t feel bad. As a public figure, he seems to have hit his high water mark during the Reagan Adminstration as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, where he stridently defended supply-side economic policy. Since 2001, he has been a rather loud voice …
Just a quick note that this is my 100th blog post since I picked up the blogging habit again a few years ago. That’s more than I’ve ever blogged in the past, so I consider the current blog a moderate success. In celebration of hitting this mark, I’m linking to an interview I did a …
One of my goals as a future historian is to be an expert on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. As a result, I’m already better read than most people on the latter topic, while on the former topic, I’m probably at the level of an interested history buff. After having read most of the single-volume …
In my last post, I noted how I’d set about to reading Eric Cline’s 1177 B.C. Ah, but the best laid plans of mice and men and all that. I stopped a couple of chapters in to pick up Hans-Ulrich Wehler’s The German Empire: 1871-1918. Wehler takes a very straight line approach from Bismarck to …
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