[Nihil Obstat]

very interesting article. thank you.

[.cnI redruM]

I encountered far worse when I was an undergrad taking the required History of The World course. I got treated to a prof. who bragged that Stalin modernized Soviet agriculture. How? By fertilizing the acreage with guts of the guys who originally broke it with a plow?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Conquest is great. I'm reading "The Harvest of Sorrow" right now.

[GOP_1900AD]

A case can be made for some sort of strong preemptive action against Holocaust deniers and Soviet Communist crime deniers. Both types are cancer cells waiting to metastasize.

Same deal regarding Islamists,even ones who, thus far, are only ideological Islamists.

[JAWs]

This tale is probably apocryphal, but I love it. When his publisher suggested retitling his book on Stalin's engineered famine, Conquest supposedly suggested, "I told you so, you f**king fools!"

[Verginius Rufus]

Canfora has a book about the library at Alexandria, The Vanished Library, published by the University of California Press. There is an interesting item by Bernard Lewis responding to a review by Hugh Lloyd-Jones which appeared in The New York Review of Books on June 14, 1990. The original review is available only to subscribers, but Lewis' reply is available online at www.nybooks.com/articles/3517

Canfora has also written books in Italian on Thucydides and on Julius Caesar, but I think that's the only one in English.

[WFTR]

While I wouldn't agree with a law making holocaust denial illegal, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to fire college professors who try to teach these lies in class. We wouldn't have any trouble firing a professor who denied that Hitler killed six million (or ten million or four million or whatever the current estimate is). We should have no qualms about firing a professor who denied that Stalin killed twenty million (or whatever other reasonable estimate the scholars may make). The liberals would scream like crazy if we took this action, but there are limits to how far we should go in accomodating the liberals. They'll never accept reasonable compromise, so when necessary, we should simply overpower them and let them complain.

Bill

[Alberta's Child]

So-called "conservative" isolationists in the U.S. defended such bloody dictators as Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia, where "humanist Marxists" one day suddenly opted for rabid ultranationalism.

This statement really caught my eye. This moron really makes a stretch here -- considering the thoroughly rational reasons why so many of us conservatives (and I don't use quotes around that term) opposed U.S. military intervention in the Balkans.

[Thunder90]

Putin, Ivanov et all also deny the Soviet holocaust.

[Luke21]

"....were routinely vilified by the robotically-conditioned ranks of the world's Communist parties."

And what has changed? Tried arguing with a Democrat lately?