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DICKENS AND SOCIAL ORDER

2/10/2020

The Ghost of Dickens Past
By Cicero Bruce on Feb 06, 2020 09:00 pm
Critics have well acquainted us with Charles Dickens the sentimentalist—lover of the oppressed, defender of childhood innocence, decrier of England’s industrial sweatshops. But seldom have they given readers a glimpse of the Dickens with whom Myron Magnet deals in “Dickens and the Social Order”: Dickens the philosophical traditionalist. Dickens and the Social Order, by ...
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THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY & THE RISE-FALL OF INFORMATION EMPIRES

2/10/2020

https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Atomic-City-Untold-Helped/dp/B00G3EBIY4/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

A MORAL CONFUSION CALLED ISLAM

2/6/2020

The Muslim World's Inferiority Complex by Raymond Ibrahim
American Thinker
February 1, 2020
https://www.meforum.org/60371/the-muslim-world-inferiority-complex

Hassan Rahimpour Azghadi, a member of Iran’s Supreme Council for Cultural Revolution, said in a January 23, 2020 lecture aired on Ofogh TV (Iran) that Jihad and violence are a form of mercy to the world. Explaining that mercy for mankind had been the heart of Prophet Muhammad’s mission, Azghadi said that bloodshed through Jihad is merciful in the same way that surgery is merciful when compared to execution. – Middle East Media Research Institute

Noah Rothman writes: America’s political class has never had enough faith in the voting public to level with them about what’s at stake. But Western interests in Syria did not cease to exist. Indeed, those interests seem increasingly imperiled by unabated violence and political chaos in the Levant. If Syria’s trajectory continues along its present course, Americans are going to be hearing a lot more about it. And soon. – Commentary Magazine

ANALOG VS. DIGITAL

1/28/2020

ASIA TIMES

HUNTING FOR THE ETERNAL NAZI

1/27/2020

https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Nazi-Mauthausen-Relentless-Pursuit/dp/B00IK2OMY0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Kulish+nazi&qid=1580079392&s=audible&sr=1-1

Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a devastating mark. According to the testimony of survivors, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts. He performed surgeries on otherwise healthy people. Some recalled prisoners' skulls set out on his desk to display perfect sets of teeth. Yet in the chaos of the postwar period, Heim was able to slip away from his dark past and establish himself as a reputable doctor and family man in the resort town of Baden-Baden. His story might have ended there, but for certain rare Germans who were unwilling to let Nazi war criminals go unpunished, among them a police investigator named Alfred Aedtner.

After Heim fled on a tip that he was about to be arrested, Aedtner turned finding him into an overriding obsession. His quest took him across Europe and across decades, and into a close alliance with legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. The hunt for Heim became a powerful symbol of Germany's evolving attitude toward the sins of its past, which finally crested in a desire to see justice done at almost any cost.

As late as 2009, the mystery of Heim's disappearance remained unsolved. Now, in The Eternal Nazi, Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet reveal for the first time how Aribert Heim evaded capture - living in a working-class neighborhood of Cairo, praying in Arabic, beloved by an adopted Muslim family - while inspiring a manhunt that outlived him by many years. It is a brilliant feat of historical detection that illuminates a nation's dramatic reckoning with the crimes of the Holocaust.

medieval bodies: life and death in the middle ages

1/27/2020

https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Bodies-Life-Death-Middle-dp-B07ZQSMRYS/dp/B07ZQSMRYS/ref=mt_audio_download?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell in love, and had children. And yet their lives were full of miraculous and richly metaphorical experiences radically different from our own, unfolding in a world where deadly wounds might be healed overnight by divine intervention, or where the heart of a king, plucked from his corpse, could be held aloft as a powerful symbol of political rule.

In this witty and unusual history, Jack Hartnell uncovers the fascinating ways in which people thought about, explored, and experienced their physical selves in the Middle Ages, from Constantinople to Cairo and Canterbury. Unfolding like a medieval pageant, and filled with saints, soldiers, caliphs, queens, monks and monstrous beasts, it throws light on the medieval body from head to toe - revealing the surprisingly sophisticated medical knowledge of the time.

Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages. Perfumed and decorated with gold, fetishized, or tortured, powerful even beyond death, these medieval bodies are not passive and buried away; they can still teach us what it means to be human.

CHURCHILL'S SECRET WAR

1/13/2020

https://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/B0044X82CW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

In 1943, Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.

Relying on extensive archival research and first-hand interviews, Mukerjee weaves a rivetting narrative of Churchill's decisions to ratchet up the demands on India as the war unfolded, and to ignore the corpses piling up in the Bengali countryside. The hypocrisy, racism, and extreme economic conditions of two centuries of British colonial policy finally built to a head, leading Indians to fight for their independence in 1947.

Few Americans know that World War II was won on the backs of these starving peasants; Mukerjee shows us a side of World War II to which we’ve been blind. We know what Hitler did to the Jews, what the Japanese did to the Chinese, what Stalin did to his own people. This tragedy has largely been neglected, until now.

why the west is called civilized

12/27/2019

http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-West-Rest-Niall-Ferguson/dp/1594203059/ref=tmmhrdswatch0?encoding=UTF8&qid=1391303070&sr=8-1

HOW THE ARABIZATION OF ISLAM CHANGED ASIA

12/25/2019

ASIA TIMES

HITLER: A GLOBAL BIOGRAPHY

12/21/2019

https://www.amazon.com/Hitler-A-Global-Biography/dp/B07XTSR6XF/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

EXAMINING THE LINKS BETWEEN CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP AND MADNESS

12/21/2019

INDIA'S NEW SECURITY ORDER

12/18/2019

Michael Howard: A Reminiscence by Lawrence Freedman

India’s New Security Order by Paul Staniland

HOOVER'S LOST MEMOIR SURVIVES

11/28/2019

https://www.amazon.com/Crusade-Years-1933-1955-Institution/dp/0817916741/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=George+Nash+Hoover&qid=1574811407&s=audible&sr=8-6

THE LONG SHADOW: LEGACIES OF THE GREAT WAR IN THE 20TH CENTURY

11/28/2019

ALBERTO MINGARDI
Populism’s Echoes
Historical lessons from Europe’s transformation in the late nineteenth century

https://www.amazon.com/Long-Shadow-Legacies-Twentieth-Century/dp/B00KPO7DZG/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Long+Shadow&qid=1574810803&s=audible&sr=1-3

A LOOK AT SOVIET ETHICS CALLED CHERNOBYL & A SILLY THING CALLED JUDICIAL SUPREMACY OF THE CONSTITUTION

11/15/2019

Chernobyl: A Tale of Science and the Soul
by Flagg Taylor
No matter one’s position in society, the vibrancy of communism, and its superiority to other systems, must be constantly affirmed. Read More »

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution
by Greg Weiner
Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution. Read More »

JOHN PODHORETZ: THE FIRST NEO-CONSERVATIVE, WHY HE MATTERS TODAY & EMILE DURKHEIM AND THE DRYFUSS AFFAIR

11/15/2019

Happiness through Chutzpah: The Norman Podhoretz Story
It was a privilege for us to give the Herzl Prize to the great Norman Podhoretz last Sunday. Read New York Post Op-Ed Editor Sohrab Ahmari's recounting of the day and tribute to this American patriot, proud Jew, and legendary conservative.

The Religion of Liberal Democracy
Blake Smith
How the Dreyfus affair inspired sociologist Émile Durkheim to develop an original, provocative, and optimistic view of the French Republic and the rights-bearing individual
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WOMEN OF THE GULAG: SHORTLISTED FOR ACADEMY AWARD

11/12/2019

Women of the Gulag is a 2018 US short documentary film directed by Marianna Yarovskaya. and based on the book Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives by Paul Roderick Gregory(2013).Best Documentary Short shortlist nominee, 2018 Academy Awards.

MIDWIFING MODERNITY: HOW HERETICS AND HEROES GAVE US MODERN LIFE

11/12/2019

Hinges of History series, Thomas Cahill guides us through the thrilling period of the Renaissance and the Reformation (the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth century), so full of innovation and cultural change that the Western world would not experience its like again until the twentieth century. Beginning with the continent-wide disaster of the Black Death, Cahill traces the many developments in European thought and experience that served both the new humanism of the Renaissance and the seemingly abrupt religious alterations of the increasingly radical Reformation. This is an age of the most sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies and of newly found courage, as many thousands refuse to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. It is an era of just-discovered continents and previously unknown peoples. More than anything, it is a time of individuality in which a whole culture must achieve a new balance if the West is to continue

https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-Heroes-Renaissance-Artists-Reformation/dp/B00G3KOHXM/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=thomas+cahill&qid=1573429080&s=audible&sr=1-2

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTEAD: MASTER BUILDER OF CENTRAL PARK, WHY HE MATTERS TODAY

11/12/2019

https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Place-Life-Frederick-Olmsted/dp/B00IIWT6LQ/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1573356596&sr=1-1

Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. This momentous career was shadowed by a tragic personal life, also fully portrayed here.

Most of all, he was a social reformer. He didn't simply create places that were beautiful in the abstract. An awesome and timeless intent stands behind Olmsted's designs, allowing his work to survive to the present day. With our urgent need to revitalize cities and a widespread yearning for green space, his work is more relevant now than it was during his lifetime. Justin Martin restores Olmsted to his rightful place in the pantheon of great Americans.

AUTHORITARIANS ON THE RISE

11/10/2019

Larry Diamond has made it his life's work to secure democracy's future by understanding its past and by advising dissidents fighting autocracy around the world. Deeply attuned to the cycles of democratic expansion and decay that determine the fates of nations, he watched with mounting unease as illiberal rulers rose in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, and beyond, while China and Russia grew increasingly bold and bullying. Then, with Trump's election at home, the global retreat from freedom spread from democracy's margins to its heart.

Ill Winds' core argument is stark: the defense and advancement of democratic ideals rely on US global leadership. If we do not reclaim our traditional place as the keystone of democracy, today's authoritarian swell could become a tsunami, providing an opening for Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and their admirers to turn the 21st century into a dark time of despotism.

We are at a hinge in history, between a new era of tyranny and an age of democratic renewal. Free governments can defend their values; free citizens can exercise their rights. We can make the internet safe for liberal democracy, exploit the soft, kleptocratic underbelly of dictatorships, and revive America's degraded democracy. Ill Winds offers concrete, deeply informed suggestions to fight polarization, reduce the influence of money in politics, and make every vote count.

In 2019, freedom's last line of defense still remains "We the people."

A WINDOW IN MODERN IRAN

11/10/2019

THE JEW WHO IDENTIFIED HITLER'S TEETH AND STAYED QUIET ABOUT IT

11/1/2019

Hitler’s Teeth
Alexandra Popoff
The remarkable tale of Elena Rzhevskaya, the Jew who identified the fuehrer’s remains—and sat on the secret for decades
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FORBES

ASIA TIMES: CHINESE LEAD RESEARCH IN ANIMAL-HUMAN HYBRIDS

A LOOK AT THE AMERICAN FOUNDING & THE NOBEL

10/30/2019

ARTHUR MILIKH
1776, not 1619
America’s Founding was not defined by slavery and white supremacy—quite the contrary.

GUY SORMAN
The Grandest Trinket
Evaluating the Nobel Prize

EAT LIKE A BUSHMAN: TRAINING FOR SWAT, RANGER SCHOOL AND SEAL TRAINING

10/29/2019

Maxing the ACFT: How to fuel your body for the test
(Army Times) Out with the old, in with the new: Starting this month, the six-event Army Combat Fitness Test is beginning steps toward replacing the three-event Army Physical Fitness Test as the physical assessment of record.

1965: THE YEAR THAT BROKE AMERICAN INNOCENCE

10/28/2019

https://www.amazon.com/Eve-Destruction-1965-Transformed-America/dp/0465013589/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1572217214&sr=1-2

At the beginning of 1965, the U.S. seemed on the cusp of a golden age. Although Americans had been shocked by the assassination in 1963 of President Kennedy, they exuded a sense of optimism and consensus that showed no signs of abating. Indeed, political liberalism and interracial civil rights activism made it appear as if 1965 would find America more progressive and unified than it had ever been before. In January 1965, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that the country had “no irreconcilable conflicts.”

Johnson, who was an extraordinarily skillful manager of Congress, succeeded in securing an avalanche of Great Society legislation in 1965, including Medicare, immigration reform, and a powerful Voting Rights Act. But as esteemed historian James T. Patterson reveals in The Eve of Destruction, that sense of harmony dissipated over the course of the year. As Patterson shows, 1965 marked the birth of the tumultuous era we now know as “The Sixties,” when American society and culture underwent a major transformation. Turmoil erupted in the American South early in the year, when police attacked civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama. Many black leaders, outraged, began to lose faith in nonviolent and interracial strategies of protest. Meanwhile, the U.S. rushed into a deadly war in Vietnam, inciting rebelliousness at home. On August 11, five days after Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, racial violence exploded in the Watts area of Los Angeles. The six days of looting and arson that followed shocked many Americans and cooled their enthusiasm for the president's remaining initiatives. As the national mood darkened, the country became deeply divided. By the end of 1965, a conservative resurgence was beginning to redefine the political scene even as developments in popular music were enlivening the Left.

In The Eve of Destruction, Patterson traces the events of this transformative year, showing how they dramatically reshaped the nation and reset the course of American life.

IN DEFENSE OF US GENERALS
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WHEN GENERALS FAIL
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ARAB SPRING & POLITICAL REFORM
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Introduction to Eric Hoffer's Classic "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements".

ISLAM & DANTE
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FEMINISM: HOW WOMEN BETRAYED WOMEN

RESOLVING WORLD DISORDER

POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR MIDDLE EAST

HOW ISRAEL WINS

THE TREASON OF INTELLECTUALS: JULIEN BENDA

HAYEK & THE INTELLECTUALS

US STRATEGY FOR WINNING WORLD WAR IV

POLICY PAPERS FOR US GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT

COMPOSITION FOR THE LONG WAR

PROSPECT MAGAZINE

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