Word: hitleritis
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...Hague. Just imagine the scene. It would be the biggest media circus in history. It would make the O.J. trial look like a school-board truancy hearing. It would offer the greatest platform for the propagation of a murderously evil ideology since Weimar Germany launched Hitler's career with the 1923 Munich trial for his pathetic beer-hall putsch...
Wittgenstein and Popper were both from the intellectual hothouse of Vienna, and were pit bulls when it came to public debate. Both were Jewish, and both had their lives knocked off center by World War II. (Wittgenstein's life teems with odd coincidences: he went to high school with Hitler.) Despite their similarities, the two came from opposite ends of the philosophical universe, and the authors use the encounter to dramatize a clash of opposing ideas about the nature and purpose of philosophy itself. They make the meeting of Popper and Wittgenstein seem as fateful as that between iceberg...
...have even drafted them into war, as when Captain America famously punched out Hitler. And as TV horned in on the comics audience, its superheroes reflected our moods in war and peace. The 1950s had its straight-arrow Superman; the 1960s, a campy Batman. After Vietnam, we saw comforting images of super-Americans (Wonder Woman, the Bionic Man and Woman); after the cold war, postmodern parodies (Space Ghost). Call it coincidence or prescience, but a new generation of prime-time superhero is arriving for a new decade and a new war. Smallville (the WB, Tuesdays...
...times have changed even for the most super among us. It's hard to imagine teen Clark or the Tick enlisting to fight against Osama bin Laden (though al-Qaeda actually fits the mold of the comics' stateless supervillains better than Hitler and Tojo did). But both series ring differently after Sept. 11 in ways that will test how the conflict has affected pop culture. Smallville's most interesting character is not Clark but Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), who will someday become Superman's enemy but here, for now, is a lonely if cynical rich kid who wants...
...better, think of Hitler, the frustrated Austrian painter, whose anti-Semitism finds a terrible echo across the Islamic world today...