Overheard

Revisionist history

by Seth Gitell

Reform Party presidential hopeful Patrick Buchanan answered questions Tuesday on WTKK FM 96.9 with talk-show host Jay Severin, a friend and former aide to the perennial candidate. Responding to a call on the show, Buchanan repeated assertions about the Holocaust that he's made in the past -- assertions that minimize Hitler's guilt. "If Hitler had won, and overrun the Soviet Union quickly, you might have had no Holocaust whatsoever," Buchanan said. He added that he's preparing to write a book documenting his belief -- leading this listener to think that Buchanan is preparing to join the ranks of David Irving and other Holocaust deniers.

Patrick Buchanan is speaking at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at 1 p.m. this Thursday, March 16.