Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich
Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. Eric Kurlander. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Reading Eric Kurlander’s Hitler’s Monsters awoke my memory…
Tilo Schabert’s Lectures on Germany and France
Please see Tilo Schabert's two lectures, available on YouTube. His lecture on "The German Revolution 1989." It is available here. His lecture about the 2017 French Presidential…
The True Form of Governments: Plato, Persons, and Helmut Kohl
All forms of political order are phenomena of movements. The classic typology of political constitutions that Plato elaborated and Aristotle modified to an extent therefore represents both:…
How the World is Made: France and the Reunification of Germany
The Venice Roundtable François Mitterrand related the following episode several times afterward – to SPD [The German Social Democratic Party] president Hans-Jochen Vogel, Spanish prime minister Felipe…
“The German Question is a European Question”: France and the Reunification of Germany. A Critical Assessment.
A Critical Assessment[1] Apparently, historiography takes shape in the form of battles. It began at historiography's beginning,[2] when, to cite the most telling example, Cicero called Herodotus…
The Protestant Revolution in Theology, Law, and Community
The Protestant Reformation has been cited by scholars of European history as contributing to the rise of nationalism, individualism, capitalism, and secularism but not to the development…
Reconsidering the Nazi Era
The address which I am to deliver to you today was originally not planned as part of this series of lectures on "The German University and the…
The Preservation of Democracy
According to the popular idea, [democracy] is a form of government where the government does what the people want; and the people secure a government which acts…
Why Democracy Requires God
[Through seeking] the divine, the loving reaching out beyond ourselves toward the divine in the philosophical experience and the loving encounter through the Word in the pneumatic…
The Apocalypse in Germany
The Apocalypse in Germany. Klaus Vondung with Stephen D. Ricks, trans. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2000. Apocalyptic thought is not restricted to the realm of…
Democracy and Industrial Society
It surprises me as a newcomer to this circle that entrepreneurs have been apparently forced onto the defensive by an image of the entrepreneur whose characteristics come…
Into the Ecclesiastical Abyss: The Catholic Church
I dealt with the Evangelical Church the previous time. Now we must concern ourselves with the Catholic Church. I put the Evangelical Church first, not only because…
Apocalypse in Germany Between the World Wars (Part II)
Redemption Through Art “There are two possibilities: to comment on events with words, and to make events through words.” With this phrase, Kurt Hiller characterized in 1916…
Apocalypse in Germany Between the World Wars (Part I)
Apocalyptic Expressionism in the 1920s During the 1920s Johannes R. Becher and many other expressionists attempted to give shape to the new man by modeling him after…
A Wise French Accommodation
How World Politics is Made: France and the Reunifcation of Germany. Tilo Schabert with Barry Cooper, ed, and John Tyler Tuttle, trans. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri…
