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The History is already being written (Part 2: The Mueller investigation)

The History is already being written (Part 2: The Mueller investigation)

By: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  11 Comments  •  3 years ago

The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book Rigged:"Mueller is a great selection. Impeccable credentials. Should be widely accepted," Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican head...
The history is already being written (Part I)

The history is already being written (Part I)

By: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  94 Comments  •  3 years ago

The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book "Rigged." I regard this as the first definitive history of the Russia Collusion hoaxFrom Chapter 2: Taking on the Establishment.When Hillary...
‘Oscar Wilde’ Review: Portrait of the Artist in Full

‘Oscar Wilde’ Review: Portrait of the Artist in Full

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  4 Comments  •  3 years ago

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits...
‘The 9.9 Percent’ Review: The Tarnished Silver Spoon

‘The 9.9 Percent’ Review: The Tarnished Silver Spoon

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  1 Comments  •  3 years ago

You wouldn’t know it from the bizarre overconfidence of today’s Democratic Party, but the ideas, policies and attitudes of postwar American liberalism have mostly failed. Liberalism’s one...
Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter

Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  7 Comments  •  3 years ago

‘This book frankly leapt out of me,” writes John McWhorter, “during the summer of 2020.” The country was convulsed not just with Covid-19, but with protests in response to the killing of an...
‘Capote’s Women’ Review: Betrayal of the Swans

‘Capote’s Women’ Review: Betrayal of the Swans

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  1 Comments  •  3 years ago

In November 1975, Truman Capote published “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter from a novel he was writing called “Answered Prayers.” The book, acquired by Random House nine years earlier, was to be...
She was ahead of her time

She was ahead of her time

By: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  30 Comments  •  3 years ago

Our time's most relevant book may be one that was written over 40 years ago. In her book Return to the Primitive - The Anti-Industrial Revolution, Ayn Rand seems to have exposed the purpose of the...
The Nobel Prize in Obscure Literature

The Nobel Prize in Obscure Literature

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  4 Comments  •  3 years ago

Another year in which the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to a writer I’ve never read—and I’m beginning to despair. Is the Swedish Nobel committee setting out to show me up as a philistine?...
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