Leo Strauss had Donne Trotter’s number. Strauss was the University of Chicago professor who coined the term reductio ad Hitlerum. It’s a rhetorical gambit also known as “playing the Nazi card.” In an ...
A specter haunts Europe—this time, not that of Communism, as the opening lines of The Communist Manifesto famously assert, but that of Adolf Hitler. Nearly three-quarters of a century after Hitler’s ...
When I was at the Register last week, I wrote a blog on Beatle Paul McCartney and global warming. He had compared global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers. I made a mistake. I wrote about it as a ...