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  It is fundamentally incorrect to contrast bourgeois culture and bourgeois art with proletarian culture and proletarian art. The latter will never exist, because the proletarian regime is temporary and transient. The historic significance and the moral grandeur of the proletarian revolution consist...

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” - Samuel P. Huntington Can one support the troops without supporting the [...]

As my 39th birthday approaches, I wrestle more and more with time. Impending death focuses the mind, right? Well, it’s not as bad as all that, really, but like an invasive species, I find myself appreciating time’s aesthetic while wanting to spray it with dimensional herbicide. With my own...

The Devil of Great Island by Emerson W. Baker was released at the beginning of last month. I assume the book’s marketing team figured since they had a piece on witchcraft, a pre-Halloween release might boost initial sales. As the book is an excellent piece of historical research, my guess is some...

               Let me apologize in advance. Many thanks to the Love of Reading Online Book Fair for including me on their guest blogger list.  While my presence tends to pull down the collective reputation of any group, after reading the posts of the other guest bloggers I see there is enough quality...

          Evil Genius, by Catherine Jinks, is the kind of literature that adolescents should be reading. Jinks has written a fresh Bildungsroman about a very special orphan who attends a very special school, and she does it without the idealistic nonsense that characterizes so many monomyth varietals...

Chocolate + salt + bacon pieces = Mo's Bacon bar. I really like the combination of sweet and salty. Chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate chip cookies with a slightly salty hit, and salted caramels are all up my alley. So I nearly dropped dead when I spotted Mo's Bacon Bar at Parkleigh . Chocolate...