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ENDNOTES – A sad pavan for these distracted times STUART MILLSON
ENDNOTES A sad pavan for these distracted times STUART MILLSON remembers two overlooked English Civil War composers The period of the English Civil War was a time of profound anxiety for the country. The breakdown of authority and civil order … Continue reading
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Class inaction EDWARD DUTTON
Class inaction EDWARD DUTTON finds that societies tend towards social immobility The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility Gregory Clark, Princeton University Press, 2014, hb., 366pp In his ground-breaking 2007 book A Farewell to Alms, … Continue reading
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Tagged class system, Edward Dutton, English surnames, Gregory Clark, heredity, social mobility, social status, The Son Also Rises
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A Northern Light for Europe’s darkest hour STODDARD MARTIN
A Northern Light for Europe’s Darkest Hour STODDARD MARTIN enjoys a new biography of one of the most admirable – if enigmatic – figures of World War Two THE HERO OF BUDAPEST: The Triumph and Tragedy of Raoul Wallenberg … Continue reading
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Tagged Admiral Horthy, Adolf Eichmann, Adolf Hitler, Arrow Cross, Bengt Jangfeldt, Raoul Wallenberg, Stoddard Martin
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Why the land belongs to Bundy ILANA MERCER
Why the land belongs to Bundy ILANA MERCER roots for old school American libertarianism A writer for The Atlantic has faulted Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who is in mutiny against the federal government, for his interpretation of states’ rights. No … Continue reading
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Tagged Cliven Bundy, Ilana Mercer, John Locke, libertarianism, natural law, states rights
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Four poems LIAM GUILAR
POETRY Edited by M. W. Davis Four poems by LIAM GUILAR Dedication? Were we born for an age of cathedrals, for the arrogant upward reach of certainty; the overarching columns, neck wrecking, sweeping the gaze from priest to heaven, … Continue reading
The week of whining wimmin
The week of whining wimmin ILANA MERCER is irritated by a self-obsessed sorority The logic is as simple as it is foolproof. An “air-tight free-market argument, according to WND: If women with the same skills as men were getting only … Continue reading
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Tagged equal pay, Ilana Mercer, Megyn Kelly, Pussy Riot, Sheryl Sandberg
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12 Years a Slave – narcoleptic agitprop
12 Years a Slave – narcoleptic agitprop ROBERT HENDERSON finds the much-hyped film simultaneously tendentious and plodding 12 Years a Slave (12YAS) is dull, very very dull. The plot trudges from one banally brutal or degrading episode to the next, … Continue reading
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Prophet of Gloom
Prophet of Gloom Zibaldone: the Notebooks of Leopardi, translated from the Italian, edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D’Intino, Penguin Books, London etc, 2013, hb, 2,052 pp O nature, tell me, nature Why do you never keep Your early promises? … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Giacomo Leopardi, Leslie Jones, Pessimism, Zibaldone
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