Der einstige und der zukünftige Morgenthau Plan

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Der einstige und der zukünftige Morgenthau Plan

Innerhalb weniger Stunden nach dem Angriff auf die Nord-Stream-Pipelines am 22. September entstand die allgemeine Meinung, dass die Amerikaner die Täter waren, obwohl die Mainstream-Medien sich darin einig waren Russland zu beschuldigen. Nur die Amerikaner hatten ein Motiv und die Mittel dazu. Die Beweise beruhten auf Indizien, allerdings auf unwiderlegbaren. Innerhalb weniger Stunden nach dem Angriff machte das Video der Pressekonferenz von Präsident Biden mit Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz vom Februar 2022 im Internet die Runde. Als Antwort auf eine Frage eines Reporters im Februar sagte Biden unmissverständlich, dass Amerika die Nord-Stream-Pipelines ausschalten würde, falls Russland in die Ukraine einmarschiert. Das Video von Victoria Nuland, in dem sie dasselbe sagte, begann ebenfalls innerhalb weniger Stunden nach dem Angriff zu zirkulieren.

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Dachau for Dummies: A Review of The Defeated

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Dachau for Dummies: A Review of The Defeated

So much for the plot. When it comes to character, another crucial component of drama, we get to know Officer McLaughlin better through a shameless example of a “Save the Cat” scene. The term comes from Blake Snyder’s book of the same name. Snyder refers to it as a “basic” principle in establishing character in film, and the moral values we’re supposed to attach to that character. The “Save the Cat” moment occurs in “the scene where we meet the hero and the hero does something—like saving a cat—that defines who he is and makes us, the audience, like him.”1 When Al Pacino in Sea of Love lets a parole violator off with the witty line, “Catch you later,” because he showed up at a Yankees game with his son, it is impossible not to like the character Pacino is paying. Or as Snyder puts it, “I don’t know about you, but I like Al. I’ll go anywhere he takes me now and you know what else?

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The Disputation of St. Louis

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The Disputation of St. Louis

Edmund Mazza begins The Scholastics and the Jews: Coexistence, Conversion, and the Medieval Origins of Tolerance by citing what he calls Jeremy Cohen’s “classic work,” The Friars and the Jews, in which Cohen argues that “the Dominicans and Franciscans developed, refined, and sought to implement a new Christian ideology with regard to the Jews, one that allotted the Jews no legitimate right to exist in European society.”[1] That “new Christian ideology” involved “an organized and aggressive mission to the Jews.” And what was involved in this form of aggression? Raymond of Penaforte, then general of the Dominican order, “committed himself to making contemporary Jews believing Christians.”[2] Working for the conversion of the Jews as a way of bringing about their eternal salvation qualifies in Cohen’s mind as “stirring up hatred against Jews.”[3] Full of rage at the very idea of conversion, Cohen concludes his diatribe against Raymond of Penaforte by claiming that “This Jew-hater was later made a saint.”[4]

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A "Cultural Marxist" Critique of Logos Rising

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A "Cultural Marxist" Critique of Logos Rising

This is the most important book of the twenty-first century. E. Michael Jones has thrown down an intellectual gauntlet that cannot honorably be ignored. He has written the definitive defense of logos, and for half a century anti-logocentrism has been the veritable shibboleth of the cultural left. […] Many intellectuals who consider themselves cultural leftists will be tempted simply to ignore this book and hope that it goes away. That would be a very bad mistake. The ideas it expresses will not disperse if ignored; they will gather and spread rapidly.

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