1914 and Christmas: What Might Have Been
Written by R. J. Stove
Monday, 14 December 2009 04:00
As Americans come to dread the increasingly bromidic nature of the festive season (where, that is, they are still allowed to celebrate Christmas at all), they might find it profitable to reflect upon the First World War. For it was that conflagration that did so much to make the West what it is today.

It engendered nearly all the most fashionable slogans of our time: “democratic crusades,â€