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Tagged Alan Sillitoe, George Orwell, Jim Cartwright, Road
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U.S. Business Itching to Import Cheap Labor
U.S. Business Itching to Import Cheap Labor By Ilana Mercer Adroitly, President Trump has optimized outcomes for the American Worker. His is a labor market like no other. Long overdue in the U.S., a labor market should be one in … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheap Labor, immigration, Labor Market, The Economist
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The English Civil War, part 2
The English Civil War, part 2 By Mark Wegierski All the aforementioned religious, dynastic, political, social, economic and ethnic tensions flared into armed conflict in the English Civil War. The term “English” is, however, misleading: although the primary focus of … Continue reading
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Tagged English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell, Puritans, Shakespeare
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Bob Woodward’s Yellow Journalism
Bob Woodward’s Yellow Journalism By Ilana Mercer It takes no time at all. You listen to Bob Woodward’s halting speech. You read his lumpen prose, and you get right away what undergirds his Trump-phobic tome, Fear: Trump in the White … Continue reading
Apartheid, in Perspective, 2
Apartheid, in Perspective, 2 By Ilana Mercer Monomaniacal Westerners—they have one thing on their minds: it begins with an “R”—have come to think and speak of apartheid as a theory of white supremacy. It was not. The policy of “separate … Continue reading
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Tagged Afrikaners, apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd, Hermann Giliomee, Ilana Mercer
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Afua-centrism
Afua-centrism Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Afua Hirsch, Jonathan Cape, 2018, pp 318, reviewed by Bill Hartley What is it like to be the descendant of immigrants to Great Britain? Such a person may never have visited the home … Continue reading
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Tagged Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish), identity, The Guardian
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Lament for a Nation
Lament for a Nation By Mark Wegierski George Parkin Grant (1918-1988) was Canada’s leading traditionalist philosopher. The main expression of George Grant’s thought occurs in four major books: Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965), Technology and Empire: … Continue reading
Apartheid, in Perspective, 1
Apartheid, in Perspective, 1 Essay in two parts, by Ilana Mercer In a recent translation of Tacitus’ Annals, the question was raised as to whether “there were any ‘nations’ in antiquity other than the Jews.” Upon reflection, one suspects that the … Continue reading
Eisner’s Choice – Reform or Revolution?
Eisner’s Choice – Reform or Revolution? Kurt Eisner, a Modern Life, Albert Earle Gurganus, Camden House, 2018, HB, 576 pp., reviewed by LESLIE JONES Kurt Eisner, a Modern Life, is a fitting title for this compelling biography of the campaigning journalist … Continue reading
Judge not, lest thou be judged
Judge not, lest thou be judged By Ilana Mercer By the time this column goes to press, Christine Blah-Blah Ford will have appeared before the coven once considered the greatest deliberative body in the world: The United States Senate. At … Continue reading →
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