I have a strange collection of books. One is called “The Auschwitz Album.” When Auschwitz was liberated, one of the survivors found an SS officer’s…
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Nuremberg Undone
Published January 8, 2026
There is an understandable attraction to monocausal explanations. It is easier to say that poverty is the result of an individual’s moral failure. It is…
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Published January 6, 2026
We need to stop being surprised by the actions of the Trump administration. They told us in Project 2025 what they will do. They told…
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Published December 31, 2025
My nightmares do not consist of things that I know, but of things I do not know but which history tells me will likely happen.…
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Why Didn’t the Democrats Stop Them?
NOTE: The original draft of this post was written on July 11, 2017. Though it’s being posted nearly nine years later, the critique of Obama…