For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. And Republican presidential candidates routinely are tagged with the “Hitler” ...
In the final, tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic, a succession of arch-conservative chancellors ruled by emergency ...
Robert Kaplan is one of our nation’s best geopolitical thinkers. He has the remarkable ability to explain contemporary world events by combining classical geopolitical analysis with an understanding ...
Nevertheless, in the preface to German historian Volker Ullrich’s new history, Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic, we hear that because “Democracies are fragile” and “can flip into ...
In the waning days of 1918, Germany felt humiliated by its military defeat in World War I and exhausted after a political revolution turned it into a parliamentary democracy. But despite the upheaval, ...