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Uncollected Folk – Roy Kerridge on Lonnie Donegan
Uncollected Folk ROY KERRIDGE remembers Lonnie Donegan Ill at ease in the playground of my new grammar school, I roamed aimlessly around for a while, then stood transfixed as I heard a boy break into song: “Railroad Bill, Railroad Bill, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Brothers, Beatles, Blind Lemon Jefferson, John Henry, Leadbelly, Lonnie Donegan, Railroad Bill, Rolling Stones, Roy Kerridge, Woody Guthrie
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Special path to hell
Special path to hell LESLIE JONES examines a German wartime functionary’s disingenuous memoirs A Small Town near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust Mary Fulbrook, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, hb, 421 pp, £20 Udo Klausa was the Landrat (chief … Continue reading
Ceuta – Spain’s Rock
Ceuta – Spain’s Rock BILL HARTLEY visits a surviving fragment of the Spanish Empire The ferry from Algeçiras makes the world’s shortest intercontinental crossing as it travels to North Africa. Yet if the destination is Ceuta then the traveller remains … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hartley, Ceuta, Gibraltar, Melilla, Morocco, Spanish Empire, Spanish Foreign Legion, Tanger Mer, Tangiers
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Slavoj Zizek – the Left’s visionary of violence
Slavoj Žižek – visionary of violence HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS examines one of today’s most lionized Leftists Born in 1949 to an economist and an accountant in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Slavoj Žižek is a cultural critic renowned for his innovative interpretations of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Gramsci, Hegel, Henry Hopwood-Phillips, Marxism, political violence, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton
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Why the Left is sometimes Right
Why the Left is sometimes Right FERGUS DOWNIE examines the crossovers between supposed ideological enemies In Arthur Koestler’s wartime novel Arrival and Departure, there is a striking scene where the author introduces a prototypically modern Nazi diplomat, who expounds on the intrinsically … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Carlyle, Charles Maurras, Fergus Downie, Georges Sorel, Leon Trotsky, Max Weber, Oswald Mosley
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Aristophanes’ comedies of (political) errors
Aristophanes’ comedies of (political) errors KENNETH ROYCE MOORE asks what we can learn about today’s politics from the Attic wit Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship John Zumbrunnen, University of Rochester Press, 2012 Zumbrunnen’s book takes a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Birds, Greek comedy, Greek democracy, John Zumbrunnen, Kenneth Royce Moore, Lysistrata, Peace
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Stefan Zweig – yesterday’s man
Stefan Zweig – yesterday’s man STODDARD MARTIN reviews a life of the aesthete and belletrist Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig Oliver Matuschek (2006), tr. Allan Blunden, Pushkin, £20 The fall of Hapsburg civilization was a catastrophe for some; … Continue reading
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Tagged Das Lamm des Armen, Fouche, Hapsburgs, Jeremias, Marie Antoinette, Oliver Matuschek, Stefan Zweig, Stoddard Martin, Ungeduld des Herzens, Vienna
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On An Anonymous Reviewer – Catharine Savage Brosman
On an Anonymous Reviewer CATHARINE SAVAGE BROSMAN A man? A woman? Quite close-lipped, at least, invited to assess a scholar’s lengthy manuscript. It was shot down, without finesse. “The work, I see, does not succeed except most literally; such … Continue reading
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Tagged Catharine Savage Brosman, Chronicles magazine, On an anonymous reviewer
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Replay – Star Wars (1977) by Mark Wegierski
Star Wars (1977) MARK WEGIERSKI Star Wars (original theatre-version length 121 minutes) is the George Lucas masterpiece that has led to the emergence of one of the most successful of the current-day pop-culture mega-franchises. The film begins with the written … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, George Lucas, Mark Wegierski, monomyth, Ronald Reagan, Star Wars, Tea Party
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Remembering Russia’s Vietnam
Remembering Russia’s Vietnam FRANK ELLIS remembers the tortuous Soviet attempt to subjugate Afghanistan Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 Rodric Braithwaite, Profile Books, London, 2011 “This film is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan” (Rambo III, 1988) Afgantsy is … Continue reading
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Tagged 9th Company, Afgantsy, Afghanistan, Cold War, Frank Ellis, mujahideen, nation-building, neoconservatism, Rodric Braithwaite
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