4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (154+ words) David Heinemeier Hansson has published again; this time it’s his movement’s public face. The decoder for his “creed” post comes from his other writing. Roger Griffin defines exactly this as the fascist core of palingenetic populist ultranationalism: rebirth from decay,…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (273+ words) On this day, as we watch Elon Musk celebrate his work to push the AfD party into restoring Nazi power over Germany, we remember eighty-four years ago the Gestapo arrived in Preil, an Prussian fishing village, and arrested Mildred Fish-Harnack…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (620+ words) Germany’s war was lost by December 1941. And yet, Hitler refused to stop killing, sending millions to death. Who and how? That’s the lesson. The Wehrmacht stalled at Moscow, the United States entered, and the economic arithmetic that Adam Tooze later…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (714+ words) Friday afternoon in Düsseldorf, the man named Alexander Dobrindt stood next to Herbert Reul and issued his usual label: Dobrindt added that a final assessment was not yet possible, and then he delivered one anyway to emphasize how little he…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (281+ words) flyingpenguin I was surprised, but not really, to find a book about the harms of information technology is pushing bad history. The history wasn’t written by a historian, in other words. Take this bit, for example. First, Socrates wrote nothing....