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Politics

Denying the sky is blue because Orange Man Bad

October 18, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Blind hatred makes people irrational. When you suffer from the Trump Derangement Syndrome, you are likely to take the opposite view to the President on pretty much every issue, because …

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Politics

China – not quite 70 for 70

October 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

People’s Republic of China is today celebrating 70 years of existence. On this day in 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the new state at the Tiananmen Square in …

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Books / History / Politics

Before there was Trump, there was Joe McCarthy

September 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’ve been reading M Stanton Evans’s excellent and scholarly “Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies” (published some 12 years ago) …

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History / Politics

The Fourth Partition

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s 2019, so over the next few years we will commemorate a number of 80th anniversaries connected with the Second World War. British people will be reminded of their darkest …

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History / Politics

Unapologetic

September 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

How long must societies face penance for past sins? Individuals have it easy – there are either statutes of limitation or you die; either way, it’s over. Human societies, on …

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History

The two “what if”s of September 1939

September 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Eighty years ago, Germany invaded Poland from the west, the north and the south, starting World War Two. Seventeen days later. the Soviet Union invaded from the east, completing the …

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History / Politics

Russia tries to normalise Ribbentrop-Molotov

August 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

The other day the world (mostly Eastern Europe and a few history buffs) remembered to 80th anniversary of the signing in Moscow of the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov non-aggression pact between the …

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History

One such day

August 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Seventy-five years ago, late afternoon on 1 August 1944, the biggest single act of resistance in the Nazi occupied Europe commenced in Warsaw. The Uprising was to last two month, …

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History

Happy 400 years of Solidarity, America!

July 21, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Aurelia Pucinski, a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, remembers a little know incident of the early American history, whose anniversary we are celebrating today: Original records of the Jamestown …

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Politics

Who’s afraid of the big bad tank?

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Donald Trump has brought tanks into Washington DC for the 4th of July celebrations and people are going nuts. None nuttier than a Harvard academic and a former Clinton man, …

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Politics

As one of those Ellis Island families, dear Alexandria…

June 30, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AKA Occasional Cortex, She Guevara, Chiquita Khrushchev) really does embody all the worst characteristics of the Millennials without any of the generation’s redeeming qualities, as if in some …

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History / Politics

What Trotsky’s granddaughter said

June 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In one of those cruel strokes of fate, all of Leon Trotsky’s four children predeceased him, even if many would not feel any compassion for one of the fathers of …

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Culture / Politics

Chernobyl versus nuclear power

June 5, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I don’t know whether it was the intention of the creators of HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series to scare the viewers’ pants off about the nuclear technology (I do know it was …

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Politics

No, not every wall is the Berlin Wall

June 3, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

You have to give this to libertarians: they are at least consistent. For example, unlike most if not all other ideological persuasions, they believe in a free and unrestricted movement …

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Politics

AFL’s own goal at Tiananmen Stadium

June 2, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

If you need any further evidence that time indeed flies, on Tuesday we will remember the 30th anniversary of the Communist Party of China sending tanks against its own people …

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Politics

Bob was all our uncle

May 16, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It is rather melancholy that Bob Hawke died only two days before most likely seeing his beloved Labor Party returning to power after six years in opposition. The consolation is …

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Books / History

Monte Cassino, great-grandfather and a bear

May 15, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

On May 18, the day Australia goes to the polls, on the other side of the world we will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest …

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Politics

Depressing them softly

May 10, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …

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History / Politics

White Knight Vs Black Knight: SJWs invade medieval Europe

May 7, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Once in a while – actually, nowadays, on a daily basis – you read something that actually makes you dumber (hat tip: JK). This is one of these things: Each …

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History / Lifestyle / Photography / Travel

Anzac Day Repost: Grandfather’s Bridge

April 25, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Note: I have originally published this long post two and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. I have reposted …

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