Some Background to the Essay All my life, I have been an atheist. I also have to confess that when I was (much) younger, I used to think that this was an indication of the fact that I was brighter and more capable of critical thought than those who accepted stories that were so patently […]
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Detrimental Ideological Prejudices A few weeks ago, I read Sebastian Haffner’s “The Meaning of Hitler,” a relatively old analysis, as it was written more than forty years ago. I thought it a rather well-written and thoughtful book, that is, until I was about 50 pages in when the author starts discussing the “socialism” of Hitler’s […]