Who was the great villain of the 20th century—the person most to blame for the evils of those decades? The stock answer is the person whose name is an anagram of “HEIL! OLD FART.” I disagree. It seems to me the title properly belongs to Lenin, the guy who really got the totalitarian ball rolling.... Read More

Although I certainly don't want to cramp Keith Preston's style or libertarian persuasion, his polemic today is so full of factual errors and fallacious comparisons that I feel obliged to respond. For the record, Kaiser Wilhelm II was not a socialist, as Preston would learn from reading Eberhard Straub's study Kaiser Wilhelm II in der... Read More