‘Kids were tougher in the 1990s’: what happens in Dan Pena’s £27,000 ‘tough love’ seminars?
He teaches his followers how to become successful through ‘Quantum Leap Advantage’
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Tuesday
Monday
The journalist’s journalist: the irrepressible Claud Cockburn
No one should be put off reading Patrick Cockburn’s remarkable biography of his father by its misleading subtitle
Saturday
The dirty war of Sefton Delmer
Peter Pomerantsev’s How to Win an Information War is an effort to counter prevailing narratives
Friday
Tucker Carlson failed Putin’s history class
He should have pointed out to Putin that Hitler’s predicament could well be applied to Putin himself
Monday
Why shouldn’t Tucker Carlson interview Vladimir Putin?
‘Perhaps we need a total and complete shutdown of Tucker Carlson re-entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,’ says Bill Kristol
Friday
Why isn’t Lenin as reviled as Hitler?
The damaging effects of his coup continue to this day
Friday
Bill Stirling – the brains behind the wartime SAS
Gavin Mortimer’s vivid and meticulously researched book, 2SAS, acknowledges the importance of SAS’s founding father
Thursday
The shadow of the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler still haunts Germany
Its foreign policy is still paralyzed by shame
Sunday
Has Germany truly come to terms with its Nazi past?
Should a Bavarian university preserve a hospital where 1,000 mental patients were murdered?
Monday
How Switzerland gave up its most precious possession
How can the Swiss defy guys like Hitler and Stalin but give in to American banker-slobs?
Thursday
From the archive, 1943: The Germans have suffered a humiliation at Stalingrad
From the archives: the Battle of Stalingrad ends in German defeat
Thursday
Berliners were punished twice – by Hitler and by the Allies
‘Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.’ Albert Einstein’s deft avoidance of the question put to him in 1929 – whether he considered himself a German or a Jew – was prophetic of what would happen to his country in the following decade. He was just one of the many stars of Berlin, Europe’s dazzling, decadent centre of the arts and culture, whose spark would be dimmed or extinguished by Adolf Hitler. Capturing the history, people and spirit of Berlin, arguably the beating heart of Europe, can be a tricky proposition, as I know. Sinclair McKay has wisely kept to analysing the city through the prism
Monday
German billionaires are still benefiting from the Nazis
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties by David de Jong reviewed
Monday
No, Spike Lee: Donald Trump is not like Hitler
I wish people would stop comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Not because I’m worried about Trump’s feelings — he’s big enough to look after himself — but because of the extraordinary damage these comparisons are doing to historical memory. All the loose, opportunistic, cheap-thrill talk about Trump being the new Hitler is trivialising the Nazi regime and the grotesque crimes of the 1930s. The latest celeb to jump on the Trump-Hitler bandwagon is film director Spike Lee. During an acceptance speech for a special prize from the New York Film Critics Circle, Lee said Trump would ‘go down in history with the likes of Hitler’. Trump and all ‘his
