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Waiting to die on the government’s watch ILANA MERCER
Waiting to die on the government’s watch ILANA MERCER lambasts a bloated and cruel bureaucracy Why would a talented, dedicated cardiologist choose to be confined in a medical gulag, weighed down by incompetents, his wages capped; his rewards incommensurate with … Continue reading
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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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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Tagged Chiwetel Ejiofor, Robert Henderson, slavery, Twelve Years a Slave
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