The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name

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Published on: July 18, 2011

The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name Walter Russell Mead

This time of year it is worth remembering Mein Kampf, the turgid and unreadable Bible of the Nazi movement that was published back in July of 1925. The last time I looked, you could still buy it at the international airport newstand in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur -- along with other classics of anti-Semitism like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the collected rants of Henry Ford in the Dearborn Independent. Jeffrey Goldberg tells me that he recently saw Hitler's masterwork on the bestseller shelf of the Borders book store at the Mall of...