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Tom Cotton
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China
New York: Broadside Books, 2025
In 2020, the world shut down due to a global plague called COVID-19 which originated in Wuhan, China. When the plague first appeared, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas pointed out that there was a lab in Wuhan which specialized in the study of viruses and that lab was known to be unsafe. (more…)
2,803 words
Barack Obama
A Promised Land
Crown Publishing, New York City, 2020
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
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Full disclosure. I have only read the first half of the 768 pages of volume one of President Obama’s memoirs. I will write a second review when I finish it – maybe. (more…)
2,472 words
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor
New York: Fordham University Press, 2020
It’s old news that Flannery O’Connor, dead since 1964, has taken some flak for writing letters in which she said she didn’t much like black people. (more…)
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Paul Kersey
Escape From Detroit: The Collapse of America’s Black Metropolis
Antelope Hill, 2025 (CreateSpace, 2012)
Well, you know what they say about Detroit; it’s all fun and games ’til they shoot you in the face. – Roger Sterling, Mad Men (S06E12)
Every lie told about equality and race dies with Detroit. – Paul Kersey (more…)
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Edward Dutton
Shaman of the Radical Right:
The Life and Mind of Jonathan Bowden
With a Foreword by Greg Johnson
Perth, W.A., Australia: Imperium Press, 2025 (more…)
7,513 words
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde
Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan
(Studies in the Catholic Imagination: The Flannery O’Connor Trust Series)
New York: Fordham University Press, 2024
I don’t like negroes. They all give me a pain and the more of them I see, the less and less I like them. Particularly the new kind.
–Flannery O’Connor[1] (more…)
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Jacques Luzi
Ce que l’Intelligence artificielle ne peut pas faire
Èditions La Lenteur, 2024
For both pragmatic and mystical reasons, industrial society worships technology, and it is the adoration of technology which stymies any democratic debate or questioning regarding the legitimacy of the technocratic class in power. The dependency on machines and the devotional association which many ordinary people have with machines stands in the way of any effective critique of that class’s project to transform natural gifts into artificial ones. (more…)
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Ryan T. Anderson
When Harry Became Sally
Encounter Books, 2018
Gender properly understood is a social manifestation of human nature, springing forth from biological realities, though shaped by rational and moral choice.
-Ryan T. Anderson, When Harry Became Sally (more…)
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Thomas Dixon Jr.
The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden- 1865-1900
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902
The most memorable book that I read in 2024 was written in 1902. In addition to being highly entertaining, I found it to be quite relevant to our cause today. This is, perhaps, rather peculiar considering that in addition to being well over a century old, The Leopard’s Spots is a work of fiction. But there is a great deal of truth in Thomas Dixon’s first novel. (more…)
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Emmanuel Todd
After the Empire: The Breakdown of American Order
New York: Columbia University Press, 2002
In the immediate aftermath of the 9-11 Terror Attacks, the enraged American public, further goaded by the mainstream media and neo-conservatives in the Bush 43 administration, went into a fit of madness. This insanity was helped along by two pre-existing ideological worldviews that were widely known and understood at the time. (more…)
A clay model of Thugs demonstrating their method of murder by strangulation
2,446 words
A clay model of Thugs demonstrating their method of murder by strangulation
In the all-consuming culture wars of our era, it is often tempting to look for convenient rhetorical victories. Sometimes, however, these victories can be too convenient. I remember such victories from the 1990s when I first learned of the Thuggees of India. All I knew at the time was that they were a murderous cult, prevalent during the 19th-century British Raj, and that the British (to their credit) had completely stamped them out. (more…)
876 words
Alain de Benoist
Against Liberalism: Society Is Not a Market
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Middle Europe Books, 2024
2,952 words
Paulo Freire
Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
New York, NY: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008
One of the most influential figures in education, though rarely spoken of outside education circles, is the Brazilian writer Paulo Freire. His book The Pedagogy of the Oppressed is the third most cited work in the field of social sciences and the most cited in education with over seventy-two thousand references. (more…)