Benito Mussolini
Interviewing Hitler about Genocide
Interviewing Hitler about Genocide by An American Prosecutor I walk into his cell and say, “Don’t worry, you’ll be treated as fairly today as your Nazi colleagues were at the Nuremberg trials.” Hitler scowls at me and ignores my extended hand. “Would you prefer a prompt return to what you’ve long been, charred dust…
Julius Caesar v. Benito Mussolini — An Excerpt from “Noteworthy Battles”
This is the first story in my upcoming collection Noteworthy Battles. Other stimulating showdowns include Ulysses S. Grant v. Robert E. Lee, Stalin v. Hitler, John F. Kennedy v. Lyndon Johnson, Hillary Clinton v. Monica Lewinsky, Ernest Hemingway v. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others. Noteworthy Battles will be published in the spring of 2026.…
Cable Wars
Ben loves war documentaries especially those with Alexander riding Bucephalus into hostile flanks, and Washington rousing frozen untrained troops, and photogenic Grant and Lee posing before ordering slaughter of several hundred thousand young men, and grainy Great War footage showing death in fetid trenches, and better films of proud performers Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Roosevelt, and…