March 12, 20170Comments

Bad History on Broadway and Elsewhere: Hollywood and Broadway don’t “do” history very well. Be careful where you get your history. Avoid movie and play “history (sic)”

Where you get your history does matter. It matters a lot. This was brought home to me about 20 years ago. A copy editor named Jeff was reviewing my story

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

February 10, 20170Comments

The Rechtsstaat and the Fate of American Liberty: History catches up to America. The hypocrisy of some of the critics of Donald Trump. This is not a defense of Trump.

The great philosopher of morality Immanuel Kant believed one of the critical elements of freedom under law was the concept of the righteous state, the Rechtsstaat. This is the concept

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

July 18, 20160Comments

Reversing the Suicide of the West? Terrorist attacks around the globe won’t end unless extraordinary men and women come forward

How many more attacks, how many more children killed, how many more Western ideas of tolerance will be trampled on before the leaders of the biggest nations say enough and

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

November 16, 20150Comments

Still Another Massacre in France: Is the West ready to defend its values?

The disastrous first World War---what was once called “the Great War” until an even bigger one 25 years later---gutted Europe and made the tyranny of Communism and Fascism possible in

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

January 26, 20150Comments

What Next? And Next? (i): A shorthand history of Modern America at war. After Vietnam, the Imperial Presidency continues to expand. Part VII, the end of the series.

President Johnson and other presidents, who had taken the country into seemingly endless wars, had often lied to the American people. It was the people who paid for these wars

by Gregory Bresiger

Gregory on History

January 9, 20151Comments

Je suis Charlie: The spirit of liberty is under attack. Will it survive?

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree

by Gregory Bresiger

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