Blog | Alex Kurtagic

New Hardback Edition of Augustin Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism (4 vols.)

We have been subjected to lockdowns over the past year, and many have cowered at home, binging on Netflix and crisps, barely getting out...

The Future Lasts Forever: A Memoir

Honesty is the best policy, it is said, but when you style yourself an intellectual who writes in earnest, and you are not only a fraud,...

Arpad Kadarkay's Georg Lukács: Life, Thought, and Politics

How this man is thought to deserve exaltation as an intellectual, or even a person, defies reason or belief, even in today's world. Out...

Leo Ruickbie's Faustus: The Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (Hardcover)

It is incredibly challenging to piece together the life of someone who lived five centuries ago, about whom so little is known, and whose...

Salvador de Madariaga's Bolivar

A real eye-opener, this biography. In his country of birth, this man, Bolívar, has the status of a god—infinitely brave, wise, visionary....

Breanne Fahs' Valerie Solanas

I once heard it said that Valerie Solanas represented the lunatic fringe of the lunatic fringe of radical feminism. As is the case with a...

Elżbieta Ettinger's Rosa Luxemburg: A Life

Hagiographical account of Rosa Luxemburg's life, focusing more on her emotional and personal life. We will not find any critical passages...

Peter Gay's Freud

While Ernest Jones' three-volume hagiography was sycophantic and defensive, with his own 1988 effort Peter Gay took derrière-licking to a...