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Today's Los Angeles Times (Wed. May 31, 2006) features a nasty anti-Catholic op-ed by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.

BACK in September 2006, in my column in the New Straits Times, I wrote on the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. It was a disturbing read. His contention was that those responsible for the extermination of Jews were not just Nazi party members or SS men but “ordinary Germans of all walks of life, men (and women) who brutalised and murdered Jews both willingly and zealously”. Blaming the entire German populace as complicit to one of the worst atrocities ever inflicted upon any particular race is, to say the least, shocking. G...

Community-based initiative training teens to fight against child, sexual abuse This approach to tackling this menace has started with some rural communities in Abuja with a high prevalence of sexual offences. 3 min read Aged 13, Samuel Daniel is aiming to become an advocate against child and sexual abuse, a menace that seems to have a foothold in Nigeria. He is among scores of young boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 17 being trained through a community-based initiative on the knowledge of child and sexual abuse-related offenses. The programme was launched by the Sexual ...

>> look for these titles and book stores this coming week and watch for the office in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> next, in a panel discussion hosted by the bar association of new york city, thane rosenbaum argues that revenge and justice are not mutually exclusive ideas and contends that our court system would better serve victims of crimes acknowledging their feelings of vengeance and take that into account in the adjudication of criminal cases. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> welcome all of you to the form of blog culture and societies spring conversati...

entire world. as you can see from this event with 90 authors something like that and i don't know how many thousands of people coming through, it is the most active biggest club probably in the world of any kind and plus it is all journalism and it's all about the press and things we do that's really good stuff that a lot of people on the left and the right don't think we do well but we did extremely well. >> mr. aukofer, newspapers are shrinking. it's changing. where do you see newspapers in ten years? >> we are going to be around for a whole long time on paper and in print but we a...