Storm of Steel – The Great War

This is special holiday broadcast from a show we recorded a while back with Titus Flavius as guests on KulturKampf, focusing on the writings of Ernst Jünger, German soldier during World War I and author of ‘Storm of Steel’. Considered a counterpart to ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, ‘Steel’ departs from many others in…

Konrad Adenauer – First Chancellor of West Germany

Emerging from the ruins of World War II, West Germany elected Konrad Adenauer as Chancellor in 1949, noting his capable management as Mayor of Cologne during the first World War on through 1920s. Having maintained a good working relationship with British occupation forces in 1919 and being cast out of government during the Nazi regime,…

Rambo – First Blood

“Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment. Back here I can’t even hold a job washin’ cars.” The dichotomy runs deeper, for American John Rambo, Vietnam war hero and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, returns to a society that bears little resemblance…

Lockup – History of the U.S. Prison System

Hidden just beneath ordinary American society lies a population that will or already has been processed by the criminal justice system. According to the CIA, 16 million Americans are estimated to go to prison at some point, a population larger than Ecuador, and 65 million have a criminal record by age 23 – more people…