January 31, 2008

  1. Review of Robert Gellately’s ‘Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler’

    Robert Gellately’s 700 page distillation of the convergence of three horrendous dictators on the world scene in the first half of the 20th century is what you would expect from a well-written book bringing together the different threads that ultimately converge in World War II. Gellately aptly subtitles his book “The Age of Social Catastrophe”…

  2. The Absurdities of Neil Postman

    I have never understood the appeal of Neil Postman — his articles and books were full of logical fallacies and factual errors. For a man who complained of the affect of mass media on public discourse, his books were close-minded gibberish that amounted to little more than special pleading that the world be ordered as…