Art… “Hitler’s Stomach” in Beijing: A Review 28 Jun 201114 Feb 2014 Today in Berlin, I was cruising through the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, the businessman's preferred paper, for German response to the Wen Jiabao visit when I ran across an article so completely…
Cultural Politics… Viewing Japan and China, circa 1937-38, via Nazi Archives 7 Apr 20117 Apr 2011 Among other things, I've spent a couple of days back in the Bundesarchiv here in Berlin, and found a new trove of materials in the R55 section, which is the…
Cultural Politics… Nazi Propaganda and Fox News 24 Aug 200924 Aug 2009 In researching a previous post, I became curious about the following image used by Glenn Beck in his bizarre equation of President Obama's health care legislation with Nazi eugenics policies:…
Cultural Politics… Nazi Propaganda, East Asian Dictators, and Glenn Beck 16 Aug 200921 Aug 2009 Today I spent some time leafing through a solemn black notebook filled with sketches made primarily in the stacks at the University of Washington Suzzalo Library, reminding myself that not…