History

by Martin A. Larson IN A Washington Post article, “Thomas Jefferson, Tarnished Icon?” (Oct. 17, 1992), staff writer Joel Achenbach subtly and snidely sought to dethrone Thomas Jefferson (pictured) from the pinnacle on which he is so rightly enshrined. “Among professional historians,…

The real source of “liberal” delusions by Revilo P. Oliver JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873; pictured) is chiefly remembered today as an example of precocity and as the author of an enthusiastic essay On Liberty (1859). There is still debate about whether he was extraordinarily precocious…

Original Introduction to CANDOUR Supplement, 22nd July, 1960 WARNING! (ILLUSTRATION: The Mau Mau uprising originated in the 1950s among the Kikuyu people of Kenya, forcing its adherents to swear savage oaths which involved bestiality. Its loyalists advocated ultra-violent resistance to British…

A quick scan of modern philosophers of history from Danilevsky to Schweitzer IF WE MAKE an exception for Will Durant, the Simon and Schuster chronicler, the best-selling historians of the twentieth century are organicists — giants of insight like Spengler and Toynbee, whose polymathic sweep…

by Yggdrasil I WOULD LIKE to introduce you to Sir Arthur Keith (pictured), father of modern Nationalism and the single most important thinker of the Twentieth Century. Keith (1866-1955) was born in Scotland, the son of a modest farmer. Trained as a medical doctor, he became one of the first structural…

by Kevin Alfred Strom (German translation here) THE NIGHT OF February 13th, and February 14th, Valentine’s Day, mark an ominous anniversary in the history of Western Civilization. For beginning on the night of February 13th, 1945, occurred the destruction of Dresden. On the eve of Valentine’s Day,…

by Dr. William Pierce THE MAN MOST directly responsible for the demise of the British Empire and its replacement as a world power by the Soviet Empire is Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965). The policies which he advocated as a member of the British government in the period just before World…

A Brief History of U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Part 5: Growing Zionist Power in the Postwar Era [1] by Dr. William L. Pierce IF THE SECOND WORLD WAR was a watershed in the history of the rise and fall of Western civilization and of the race which created that civilization, it was an even more decisive event…

by Thomas Goodrich TRAUMATIC as first encounters were, when the Soviet shock troops moved off many Germans would concur that the experience had not been as bad as feared. While rapes had occurred and while many German men of military age had been marched east or shot on the spot, the front line soldier…

by Thomas Goodrich THE LITTLE BOTTLE lay on the sand. Nearby, waves lapped softly against the beach. How long the bottle had been lying there no one knows. Whether it was the tide or a storm that placed it, we do not know that either. This much we do know: At some point, someone walking along the sand spotted…