Over the Brink and Into the Abyss: A Memoir from World War II Austria

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 21st at 11:59 PM  | 

THE BASIC HISTORY of World War II’s European front is (or should be) well known to every western adult and schoolchild. From the offensives that brought the majority of the European continent under Axis control, to the D-Day invasion and Operation Overlord, to Hitler’s unthinkable campaign to exterminate Jews and other “undesirables,” the general flow of the first half of the 1940s has been the | Read More »

Robert Reich: Economic Illiterate

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  September 6th at 02:10 PM  | 

There’s no better day than Labor Day to examine the nonsense that passes for high-minded economic policy proposals among the cognoscenti on the Left. To assist our examination is the erstwhile Secretary of Labor himself, the diminutive Robert Reich, who happens to be flogging a new book, “AFTERSHOCK: The Next Economy and America’s Future”, to be published in a couple of weeks. I can’t wait. | Read More »