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LEFTISM REVISITED by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

A reader (and forgive me, I cannot remember what your nom de cyber is) in a startlingly magnanimous act gave me a copy of Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot authored by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn from Austria. The terms of the bargain were that I would write a review in return.

First impressions: Mr. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn displays an impressive and deep grasp of history and politics, and, like others who have encountered him, I am almost awed by how well read and...

LEFTISM REVISITED by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddih

A reader (and forgive me, I cannot remember what your nom de cyber is) in a startlingly magnanimous act gave me a copy of Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot authored by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn from Austria. The terms of the bargain were that I would write a review in return.

First impressions: Mr. von Kuehnelt-Leddihn displays an impressive and deep grasp of history and politics, and, like others who have encountered him, am almost awed by how well read and...

Water Found on the Moon

Only posting a link. Well, I say that when I post long essays, but this time I am actually only posting a link.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090923-moon-water-discovery.html

And I will mention that H.G. Wells, with the same degree of scientific accuracy describe by GK Chesterton in his NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL, predicted the presence of water on the moon over a century ago, in his scientific romance FIRST MEN IN THE

This Lunar Sea is not a stagnant ocean; a solar tide sends it in a...

Wright's Writing Corner: Raising A Writer

Crossposted from my better half's livejournal:

Today, our Guest Blogger,Ginger Kenney--a writer herself--discusses the joys and wonders of raising a writer.

http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/84801.html

A Blindly Partisan Statment

I hope I can be excused if I violate slightly my no-posting until Friday rule, but this is a needed follow up to yesterday's post. This will be short. Well, it will be long, but it will be short for me, since my normal posts are Tolstoyan in length.

Those of you who regard me, John C. Wright, not-quite world-famous author, as merely a shrill echoing and partisan shill for the Republican Party, first let me say YOU'RE RIGHT!

Or, rather, let me say I WISH YOU WERE RIGHT!

I would be delighted to ...

A question for members of the Republican Party

I am only posting a link, and asking one question.

Here is the link: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/09/21/explosive-new-audio-reveals-white-house-using-nea-to-push-partisan-agenda/

The article concerns using the NEA, the National Endowment for the Arts, to use taxpayer money (including the tax money from artists like me who make my living by the pen, brush, bow or chisel) to fund "artistes" (including those who cannot make their living by the pen, brush, bow or chisel becau...

No one wants to talk about it? OH REALLY?

Here is the contribution from Newsweek, a fairly large & influential American magazine, to what is called the health care debate.
The Case for Killing Granny
Rethinking end-of-life care.

By Evan Thomas | NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 12, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Sep 21, 2009

My mother wanted to die, but the doctors wouldn't let her. At least that's the way it seemed to me as I stood by her bed in an intensive-care unit at a hospital in Hilton Head, S.C., five years ago. My mother was 79, a...

And now for another absurdly long Friday Post!

Ok, well, this one needs be only two words long:

SOLOMON KANE!

Only Posting a Link!

John Derbyshire, monger of gloom, over at National Review Online, is talking about Howard Philips Lovecraft.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzBhMTg4YzA0ZDUyYTc5ODNmYmY0YTBhNzNmYWYzZjM=

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have...

Wright's Writing Corner: Guest Blogger Bernie Mojzes

In a variation on last week's theme, Mr. Mojzes writes of moral ambiguity in storytelling.

http://arhyalon.livejournal.com/84306.html

My comment: I don't know whether moral ambiguity is good or bad. To me, it is sort of a gray area. Who am I to judge? How are we to know? Or, to get to the point, who are we to judge the issue of how we are to know whether or not moral ambiguity (if it exists) should be judged or not? These are deep and troubling questions that have given such thinkers as Ellswo...