8+ hour, 4+ min ago  (865+ words) The Spectator Australia What precipitated a worldwide total war in the 1930s? Rather than focusing on the struggle in Europe, Jonathan Fennell shows how the hopes and fears of tens of millions of people fired processes of radicalisation across the globe…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (636+ words) Berlin is currently convulsed by a culture war " and one all too familiar in a country and capital which, nine decades after World War Two ended, can still never seem to escape the long shadow of its Nazi past. Just…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (647+ words) The decision by any school to refuse to teach The Diary of Anne Frank should concern every Australian who values education, democracy, and social cohesion. This is not simply a debate about a book. It is a debate about whether…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (821+ words) The Spectator Australia My annual pilgrimage along the route of the Berlin Wall Each time I return to Berlin " that wonderful, awful city where I whiled away the best days of my misspent youth " I take a walk along the…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (380+ words) An abusive childhood distorted all his future relationships and scarred him " and many others " for life" So what is Mead"s concern? But of course there"s more to it than tarnish. There are the contradictions: Indeed, how many could…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1066+ words) The Spectator Australia How Winston Churchill painted himself out of the darkness At Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's home of 42 years, now owned by the National Trust, lies his painting studio. Reached by a path through the green-gold gardens, it is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (352+ words) Oldcastle Books, pp. 256, 25 In England, Lord Hailsham described his agreement reached with Hitler as "the greatest miracle of modern times performed by a single man. Incredible to recall, not one of those Tory MPs who became such staunch retrospective anti-appeasers…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (916+ words) There are several things wrong with James Vanderbilt's new film Nuremberg, least of all, some might say, the fact that" Derided as "feminists': the unsung witnesses of the Nuremberg trials Of particular note was the lawyer Harriet Zetterberg, who compiled…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (727+ words) Donald Trump may be the volatile leader of an unstable coalition. America's numerous interventions in the Middle East may have" The West should double down on the Iran war Donald Trump may be the volatile leader of an unstable coalition....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (304+ words) Speer left quite an impression on the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, too, who wrote in The Last Days of Hitler: If [Speer] seems sometimes to have fallen too deeply under the spell of the tyrant whom he served, at least he…...