Author Archives: leslie

A Light, Shining in Darkness

Posted on May 24, 2020 by leslie

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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Assignation with Greta

Posted on May 21, 2020 by leslie

Assignation with Greta by Bill Hartley Some rivers are well known with their name denoting a whole region. Others can be quite obscure and it doesn’t help when more than one river carries the same name. There are two called … Continue reading →

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Closely Observed Construction Sites

Posted on May 17, 2020 by leslie

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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The Sick Man of Europe

Posted on May 14, 2020 by leslie

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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Cannibal Lecture

Posted on May 10, 2020 by leslie

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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ENDNOTES, May 2020

Posted on May 6, 2020 by leslie

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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Walmart, with Missiles

Posted on May 2, 2020 by leslie

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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Kiel Bill

Posted on April 28, 2020 by leslie

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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Lockdown: a Libertarian Perspective

Posted on April 26, 2020 by leslie

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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Philosopher on Fire

Posted on April 24, 2020 by leslie

Philosopher on Fire  Darrell Sutton considers Heraclitus  Diogenes Laertius is a popular and reliable source for Heraclitus’ life: cf. Lives and Opinions, Book ix 1. Heraclitus, a native of Ephesus, lived around 500 BC. Too little is known of his … Continue reading →

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