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...
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 21, 20191 min
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,...
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 20, 20192 min
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...
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 20, 20191 min
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...
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 20, 20192 min
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....
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 20, 20191 min
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...
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 20, 20191 min
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...
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Alex Kurtagic
Dec 19, 20161 min
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...
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Alex Kurtagic
Feb 15, 20156 min
David Crawford's Lights Out
David Crawford's Lights Out is one of a constellation of underground post-apocalyptic novels written by American authors in recent years,...
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Alex Kurtagic
Aug 12, 20145 min
Fran Fullenwider
Concerning the last item in my previous blog: Fran Fullenwider was born in Harlingen, Texas on 16 November 1945. We can deduce German...
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