Trump’s plan to make America ‘classic’ again, one gaudy building at a time
The president’s executive order is the same old “drill, baby, drill” attitude, but this time it’s more “gild, baby, gild”, ...
Anselm Kiefer and Van Gogh — an audacious pairing that pays off
The affinities between the German master of spectacle and his Dutch artistic forebear are underlined in an Amsterdam show ...
The Irish Times25d
Washington DC feels like a city benignly anticipating its own ruin
The Nazi architect Albert Speer was among its foremost proponents; ruinenwert was an animating principle of his vision of Berlin as the centre of the Thousand-Year Reich. Speer believed – and ...
The Sun24d
Hitler’s chilling top-secret plans for ‘Silver Bird’ warplane that could obliterate New York from SPACE with dirty bomb
Pictured below, Nazi minister Albert Speer recalled Hitler's dark fascination with watching the American city burn to the ground. Speer wrote in his prison diary: It was almost as if he was in a ...
The Nation29d
The Real Problem With Trump’s Cheesy Neoclassical Building Fetish
that actually building in a traditional style is astronomically more expensive and wasteful, or that adding another layer of bureaucracy to aesthetic production smacks of Albert Speer–style desp ...
National Catholic Register15d
Prominent English Scholar Says His Country’s Decline Began With the Reformation
John Rist says the secularization and moral fragmentation in England stems from the cataclysmic 16th-century event and the ...
Irish Sun24d
Hitler’s chilling top-secret plans for ‘Silver Bird’ warplane that could obliterate New York from SPACE with dirty bomb
Pictured below, Nazi minister Albert Speer recalled Hitler's dark fascination with watching the American city burn to the ground. It was almost as if he was in a delirium when he described to us ...
BBC1d
D-Day 75: How was the biggest ever seaborne invasion launched?
As Nazi minister Albert Speer conceded, it had been an idea of simple genius. The Allies knew that even with their combined strength of forces they would be up against formidable German defences.