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Myopia’s Archetype (Review of Delgado and Stefancic’s “Critical Race Theory”)
EDIT: Shame on Amazon.com for deleting this review from its listing for this book. I realize I pull no punches, but I would argue my review is thoughtful and substantiated by solid arguments, unlike some of the 1-star drivel under books by right-wing authors. Why is it that the Woke aimed to reduce six works…
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The Anti-Antifa Handbook (Review of Andy Ngo’s “Unmasked”)
Reading about Antifa, its modi operandi, its motives, and its insidious influences on our Western societies has been a long-time pre-occupation of yours truly. Growing up in Western Europe there was never any shortage of developments surrounding this topic. But, notwithstanding its dangers back there and then, Antifa’s European activities at the time couldn’t hold…
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In Defense of Liberalism (Review Of “Cynical Theories”)
It is a boring platitude that history has produced its share of intellectual folly. Jean Jacques Rousseau, for example, believed that humans are born a “blank slate” and only corrupted as they grow up in modern society, an assertion he could have known to be insane merely by paying a few hours of attention to…
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A Tale of Two Narratives: Review of “White Fragility”
Future historians will be puzzled about ‘White Fragility’ and other such works, and the Orwellian moral panics they helped spur which are ravaging our civilization at the moment.
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The Failure of Liberalism and Elegies for Hillbillies
You know your reading is taking off when the books you’ve knocked off your list start connecting in your head like puzzle pieces on the dining room table. This happens to yours truly all the time nowadays, and it particularly occurred with two works I read in 2018, Patrick J. Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed and…
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A Remarkable Exercise In Inanity. Review of Arthur C. Brooks’ “Love Your Enemies”
It has been my conviction for a while now that social media and the daily phony outrages they help spur are rewiring our brains as we speak and make us more stupid. (Ever been on Twitter? Yeah.) Moreover, reading the drivel passing for political insight on our feeds makes us desperate to avoid the latest…
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On Motivation, Intrinsical and Extrinsical (Review of Daniel Pink’s “Drive”)
One of the great feats of being a small business owner — besides being part of the backbone of America’s economy — is that one gets to spend evenings reading books and magazines about organizational management and other business topics in a continuous effort to improve one’s own skills. Or so the theory goes. Yours…
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Top-Heavy Liberalism (Book Review)
During a good chunk of the mid-twentieth century the great conservative giants of that era argued over the question of what conservatism is. For Russell Kirk it transcended particular cultures and was, in the words of Bradley Birzer, “a natural longing to preserve the best of human thought as divined by, through, and across the…
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The Peculiar Cassandra: Review of Michel Houellebecq’s “Submission”
The string of terrorist attacks in European cities in recent years has produced, in addition to a significant number of casualties, no shortage of prophets counseling us on where the present crisis of Islamic immigration into the Old Continent will end. Those predicting that it is but a passing moment which will dissolve into a…
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More Dry Than Critical: “Liberty or Death”
“They said to her in a harsh voice: ‘Cry out: Long live the nation!’ – ‘No! no!’ she said. They made her climb onto a heap of corpses. … Then a killer seized her, tore off her dress and opened her belly. She fell, and was finished off by the others.” So ended the life…
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