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, 2019
- 1 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, 2019
- 2 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, 2019
- 1 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, 2019
- 2 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, 2019
- 1 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, 2019
- 1 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, 2016
- 1 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, 2015
- 6 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, 2014
- 5 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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Alex Kurtagic
- Aug 10, 2014
- 3 min
Navigations in Popular Culture - Part 1
The second season of American Horror Story is set in a lunatic asylum, where just one song is offered to inmates for purposes of...
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Alex Kurtagic
- Jul 10, 2014
- 3 min
The Day Germany Conquered Brazil
I am not a football fan, so I have ignored the 2014 FIFA World Cup. However, even I could not help but take notice when news of Brazil’s...
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Alex Kurtagic
- Dec 3, 2013
- 1 min
William Cobbett's The Life of Thomas Paine: Interspersed with Remarks and Reflections
I roared with laughter reading William Cobbett's malicious (but incredibly satisfying and inspired) evisceration of Thomas Paine....
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Alex Kurtagic
- Jun 19, 2013
- 10 min
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689) was a prolific dramatist, spy, and Tory propagandist of the English Restoration. After spying for Charles II in...
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