Category: Reviews
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A Review of Dome of the Hidden Pavilion, by James Tate.
Introduction: I was introduced to James Tate through a selection of the ‘best’ American poetry of 2016. The series now is not even worth the paper it is printed on due to their ‘inclusion’ of poems written by professors of English literature, generally understood to be the worst poetry writers, maybe right after postcolonial studies,…
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A Review of Down Below, by Leonora Carrington
Introduction: What is insanity? To what limit should people be believed? Is there a proper environment for our minds to function in, in order for us to be aware of the world in the usual sense? And moreover, is there a usual, proper, abundant, awareness of the external world that people tend to experience? Can…
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A Review of Existentialism is a Humanism, by Jean-Paul Sartre
“Things must be accepted as they are. What is more, to say that we invent values means neither more nor less that this: Life has no meaning a priori. Life itself is nothing until it is lived, it is we who give it meaning, and value is nothing more than the meaning that we give…
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A Review of Get Organized, by Ciara Conlon
Introduction: If you are looking for a self-help book, it doesn’t get more self-help than you’ll be finding here, and the cheap Audible variety of self-help. The book is a string of cliches and buzzwords. The advice is scattered everywhere, and little of it is particularly useful. I recall one of the central pieces of…
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A Review of Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Ann-Marie MacDonald
Introduction: Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian actress who starred in several movies and TV shows before switching to the stage. She wrote many novels and plays, of which the two most famous are Fall on Your Knees, and this one. This particular play caught my attention in 2014 because of its cover. I read it…
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A Review of Hating Whitey, by David Horowitz
“In the radical romance of our political lives, the world is said to have begun in innocence, but to have fallen afterwards under an evil spell afflicting the lives of all with great suffering and injustice. According to our myth, a happy ending beckoned, however. Through the efforts of progressives like us, the spell would…
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Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason Riley
Introduction: Jason Riley’s biography of Thomas Sowell is more of an intellectual biography. Much of what could be found here is material one does not find in Sowell’s own autobiography, A Personal Odyssey (2000). The book covers his main intellectual achievements in the fields of the sociology of knowledge, his analysis of political dispositions and…
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Economics in an Austrian Lesson — A Review of Per Bylund’s ‘How to Think about the Economy.’
“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” Murray N. Rothbard. Economics, like physics,…