Hitler's Philosophers
InHitler's Philosopher's, Yvonne Sherratt—a researcher at Oxford University—unpacks the history of the intellectual toleration of Hitler's crimes. Sherratt is plainly concerned that the Western university harbors far too much sympathy with Nazi philosophers and political theorists. This claim will surprise many, especially parents paying $55,000 a year to universities that supposedly tolerate Nazi ideas. Yet to size up the true proportions of the threat we must ask: What is a Nazi idea? What was Hitler's philosophy? And what is the chilling evidence that Hitler's philosophy is now meeting with approval among the educators of a new generation? —Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins