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Covidus Interruptus, part one
Covidus Interruptus, part one Ilana Mercer, beyond the pleasure principle Ideas about liberty, thankfully, have evolved. Egas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, received a Nobel Prize for performing lobotomies on his vulnerable, unconsenting psychiatric patients, or victims. Today, he is despised … Continue reading
A Light, Shining in Darkness
A Light, Shining in Darkness Alexandra Popoff, Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019, pp. ix-xi + pp. 1-326 + notes, photos, bibliography, index, ISBN 978-0-300-22278-4, reviewed by Frank Ellis I begin with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Popoff, Hitler, Holodomor, Kursk Salient, Lenin, Prokhorovka, Stalin, Stalingrad, Tolstoy, Vasily Grossman
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Closely Observed Construction Sites
Closely Observed Construction Sites Ilana Mercer digs deep “Nothing unusual; its [sic] my jogging routine,” writes a Twitter user. His sarcastic words are appended to a doctored image of joggers running through a construction site, while Ahmaud Arbery loiters in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmaud Arbery, Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael
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The Sick Man of Europe
The Sick Man of Europe By Stuart Millson, moonlighting again Engulfed by 220,000 Covid-19 infections and with a death toll to date of 32,000 souls, the United Kingdom has, in the current pandemic, truly become the “sick man of Europe” … Continue reading
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Tagged "Stay Alert", "Stay at Home", Covid-19, NHS
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Cannibal Lecture
Cannibal Lecture Ilana Mercer on reparations Apartheid and the Atlantic slave trade have generated an endless, media-generated pretense of remorse, especially in America and Great Britain. Spectacle aside, the real motive is to define, and therefore control, the past by … Continue reading
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Tagged apartheid, Bantu, Boers, Cannibalism, Reparations, San People, Shaka Zulu
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ENDNOTES, May 2020
Endnotes, May 2020 In this edition: Bruckner’s Second Symphony, by Stuart Millson Anton Bruckner (1824-96), organist, Wagnerphile and symphonist, has come to represent the pure, almost naive spirit of late-romanticism. From his earliest days in the Catholic church, to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Bruckner, Geog Tintner, Schubert, Wagner
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Walmart, with Missiles
Walmart, with Missiles Ilana Mercer, in hollowed out America On March 31, the number of Americans dead from Coronavirus stood at 3,900! A mere month on, at the time of writing, 63,801 Americans have perished. American deaths by Covid account … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Gates, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Globalism, multiculturalism
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Kiel Bill
Kiel Bill William Hartley, alone on a wide wide sea The Kiel Canal isn’t popular with ship’s crews, even though it cuts out a long haul around the Jutland Peninsula when entering the Baltic. A German pilot and helmsman come … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltic Sea, Kiel Canal, MV Kristin Schepers
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Lockdown: a Libertarian Perspective
Lockdown: a Libertarian Perspective by Ilana Mercer The other day I was running up a mountain. Two people were walking down it. I quickly crossed over, so as not to expirate over them. To my surprise, they thanked me profusely. … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, Ilana Mercer, Libertarian Theory, Social Distancing
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Covidus Interruptus, Part Two
Covidus Interruptus, Part Two by Ilana Mercer The managerial elites find themselves in a pickle. The coronavirus pandemic is a serious event. Members of a serious society treat it as such; they look out for one another—and they don’t flee … Continue reading →
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