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  • ‘Trump’s brain is rotting in front of us,’ says American professor

    05/29/2024 12:21:47 PM PDT · by DFG · 59 replies
    Independent via Yahoo ^ | 05/28/2024 | Ellie Harrison
    An American professor and writer has said that Donald Trump’s “brain is rotting in front of us”, and claimed that to compare him to Joe Biden is “dangerous and wrong”. Sarah Churchwell, an American culture specialist and the author of a book examining division in the US, The Wrath to Come, was appearing on a panel at Hay Festival chaired by The Independent’s chief book critic Martin Chilton. They were joined by political podcaster David Runciman and We Need to Talk About Kevin author Lionel Shriver. Shriver claimed that, ahead of the US election on 5 November, she finds herself...
  • ‘The Stripping of the Altars’, 30 years on {review of book by Eamon Duffy}

    05/29/2024 7:48:51 AM PDT · by Cronos · 12 replies
    Catholic Herald ^ | March 30, 2022 at 9:00 am | Eamon Duffy
    In the early 1980s, three unrelated events converged to turn my attention decisively to the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. I was invited to give a lecture on the Book of Common Prayer Burial Service. I decided to tackle this task by comparing the elaborate medieval Latin burial service with the austerely Protestant rite Cranmer had quarried from it: the realisation that, in the medieval service at the moment of committal of the corpse, the priest addressed the dead person directly, whereas in the Prayer Book rite the minister turned instead to the living mourners round the grave...
  • How the Democratic Party Really Got Its Name-Exclusive excerpt from Daniel Greenfield's acclaimed new book, 'Domestic Enemies'

    05/24/2024 5:30:52 AM PDT · by SJackson · 31 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | May 24, 2024 | Frontpage Editors
    Editor’s note: Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield has written a powerful new book, Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers’ Fight Against The Left. Highly original and urgently relevant, Domestic Enemies unveils the hypocrisies and destructive schemes of the Left, revealing that it has been trying to destroy America from its very founding – using many of the same tactics that it employs today.Democrats claim Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson were the fathers of their party. The truth is that their party started out as a radical leftist movement set up by supporters of the French Revolution to seize power in America.Learn why...
  • New audiobook release: A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity

    05/26/2024 6:48:17 AM PDT · by ProgressingAmerica · 7 replies
    In life, sometimes things just drop into your lap. This is one of those times. Today I am very happy to announce the full release of Major General Ethan Allen's work A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's CaptivityWhat is cool about this is that it is a solo work, meaning it is IMHO higher quality and easier to follow. Moreover, most of my personal efforts to try to recruit others have admittedly been a failure. But this one, it was just some random person who I don't have any association with saw it and recorded it. From my view, its...
  • Interesting Book

    05/22/2024 7:55:48 AM PDT · by FrozenAssets · 9 replies
    5/22/2024 | Me
    I have been reading "The Thrid Reich in the Ivory Tower" by Stephen Norwood. It is a well researched book about the relationship between Ameriocan universities and the German NSDAP (NAZI's) in the thirties. It is especially interesting in light of recent events.
  • 'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it

    05/13/2024 7:45:21 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 54 replies
    Live Science ^ | May 4, 2024 | Keumars Afifi-Sabet
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and is improving at an unprecedented pace...But there are risks in embracing any new technology, especially one that we do not fully understand. While AI could be a powerful personal assistant, for example, it could also represent a threat to our livelihoods and even our lives.The various existential risks that an advanced AI poses means the technology should be guided by ethical frameworks and humanity's best interests, says researcher and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member Nell Watson.In "Taming the Machine" (Kogan Page, 2024), Watson explores how humanity can wield the...
  • How George H.W. Bush learned very quickly that the Queen wasn't a baseball fan: New book reveals her graceful reaction during visit to a dull Orioles game that lasted two innings

    04/29/2024 9:36:29 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 50 replies
    dailymail ^ | 04/29/2024 | Nikki Schwab
    President George W. Bush took Queen Elizabeth to her first ever baseball game in 1991 - and the excursion only lasted two innings. A new book, penned by the late Bush's longtime chief of staff Jean Becker, sheds light on the exact moment the then-president realized the Queen wasn't enthralled by the game. But her reaction was full of grace. In Becker's book, Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George H. W. Bush, she features a number of political heavy hitters including President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Vice President Dan Quayle, as well as...
  • A unique look at the presidency and life of George H.W. Bush from someone who knew him best

    04/29/2024 6:53:08 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 85 replies
    khou ^ | 04/27/2024 | Len Cannon
    HOUSTON — Few people outside of the family knew President George H.W. Bush as well as Jean Becker, his longtime chief of staff. She is sharing stories from her new book, "Character Matters," calling it a roadmap to civility in our polarizing political climate. Becker is a journalist who became deputy press secretary for Barbara Bush in the White House, then was asked by the president to become his chief of staff once he left office ."I told him I didn't know how to be a chief of staff," Becker said. "I didn't know how to be a boss, do...
  • List three easy to read books that you feel smarter after reading

    04/27/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT · by MNDude · 156 replies
    Sometimes you can feel like you can get more out of reading a single book then you have an entire semester of college. Some of these books might be surprisingly simple to read. Which three books made you feel much more educated and enriched after reading them?
  • DEAD MAN WALKING

    04/28/2024 5:18:05 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 53 replies
    Powerline ^ | 28 Apr 2024 | Scott Johnson
    Hugh Gallagher explored what he called FDR’s Splendid Deception in his 1985 book of that title. In the title Gallagher was referring to FDR’s concealment of the polio-related paralysis that struck him in 1921. Gallagher was also a polio victim who understood the pain underlying Roosevelt’s efforts. Researching the book, Gallagher found that among the 35,000 photographs of Roosevelt at his presidential library, only two featured him in his wheelchair. Media of the day cooperated by ignoring his polio. Roosevelt himself went to extraordinary lengths to convey the impression that he could walk. “[T]he overwhelming fact about [FDR] is that...
  • New audiobook release: The Life of Frederick William von Steuben

    The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an officer in the Prussian army. Considered one of the fathers of the United States Army, he had a leading role in improving the Continental Army during the American Revolution and turning them into a professional fighting force. https://librivox.org/the-life-of-frederick-william-von-steuben-by-friedrich-kapp/
  • New Book Details How CIA, FBI Went From Cold War Heroes To Deep State Villains

    04/10/2024 6:02:16 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 25 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 9 Apr, 2024 | Ed Martin
    For any American curious about the full extent to which cultural Marxism and left-wing political dogma have infected the intelligence community, J. Michael Waller’s new book, Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, is a good place to start. Big Intel is part spy thriller, part historical account, and part political clarion call, all wrapped up in a horrifying true story. No one could be a more perfect fit to tell this story than Waller, who has devoted his life to studying foreign propaganda, political warfare, psychological warfare, and subversion. He...
  • Don't Have Time to Read a Book? CliffsNotes Are Not the Answer--Here's Why

    03/18/2024 11:53:06 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 39 replies
    INC.com ^ | 3/4/19 | Expert Opinion By Wanda Thibodeaux, Copywriter, TakingDictation.com @WandaThibodeaux Mar 4, 2019
    That mean old clock on the wall doesn't tend to be particularly kind to leaders and entrepreneurs, so big surprise, companies that offer cliffs notes, abridged or otherwise easy-to-digest versions of books are soaring in popularity. These certainly aren't all bad, since they can help you quickly understand what the main point of a text is or let you jog your memory about it. They have their place. But if you're going to read a book, please just read the real, whole book already, at least most of the time. There are valuable reasons not to skip even one...
  • Conservative Book Of The Year Chronicles Revolution, Counsels Counter-Revolution

    03/17/2024 9:36:07 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 17 Mar, 2024 | David P. Deavel
    On Friday night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the conservative educational foundation ISI awarded Christopher Rufo with their 2024 Conservative Book of the Year Award for his America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. Rufo’s book is certainly deserving of the honor because it gives the reader a cogent history of the main players and mechanisms by which America’s left conquered almost all our institutions. More importantly, in its closing chapters, it outlines the weaknesses of the “Revolution of 1968” and outlines some ways by which those who favor the “Revolution of 1776” can fight...
  • Review of "The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico" by Bernal Diaz

    03/16/2024 5:10:39 AM PDT · by marktwain · 52 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | June 4, 2017 | Dean Weingarten
    The American edition, published in 1956, 468 pages, Translated by A.P. Maudsley The Diaz account is the best history book that I have read. It has all the advantage of a first person account and reads like a well written adventure novel. The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico by Bernal Diaz del Castillo is the only extant first person account of the campaign under the command of Hernando Cortez from 1519 to 1520. The campaign resulted in the discovery and conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico. Cortez himself wrote five long letters to Carlos V in Spain. Parts...
  • New book examines the ‘Yuba County Five’

    03/12/2024 1:03:44 PM PDT · by MAGA2017 · 16 replies
    The Appeal Democrat Newspaper ^ | 1/4/24 | Shamaya Sutton
    New light is being brought to a 46-year-old cold case commonly referred to as the “Yuba County Five.” Inspired by a series of true crime podcasts, author Tony Wright has dedicated the last four years to research, interviews, and documentation, compiling his findings into his new book “Things Aren’t Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five.” “I came across the Yuba County case for the first time around 2018,” said Wright. “The story was just coming back into the news for whatever reason because of true crime and other unsolved mystery podcasting. It just seemed to catch fire and...
  • March 2024: Anyone read any good books lately?

    03/06/2024 7:09:18 AM PST · by Tanniker Smith · 75 replies
    3/6/2024 | Tanniker Smith
    Back in January, I posted a thread about Reading Any Good Books and it got over 200 responses. It's been two months. What have you been reading?
  • Shirley Jackson centenary: a quiet, hidden rage (born 100 years ago today)

    12/14/2016 1:14:05 PM PST · by Borges · 12 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 12/14/2016 | Joanne Harris
    I first encountered Shirley Jackson through a single short story, “The Daemon Lover”, which I read when I was 12 without knowing any of her other work. Later, I rediscovered the story, along with the rest of Jackson’s writing, and became a fervent admirer of this brilliant and (at that time) much underrated American author. In some ways, “The Daemon Lover”, from a 1949 collection is a typical Jackson story. An unnamed woman of 34 (though only 30 on her marriage certificate) wakes up on the day of her wedding to a man called James Harris. Impatiently the woman waits...
  • Shirley Jackson’s novels are eerie literary fiction. She left the best for the last

    11/10/2017 7:23:03 PM PST · by simpson96 · 45 replies
    Scroll.in ^ | 10/29/2017 | Nicholas Rixon
    Literary fiction, the two most depressing words in the English language, leaves very little space for horror. It’s a claustrophobic, dusty attic in a mansion peopled by “serious” writers. Sure, the holy trinity of Poe, Stoker and Lovecraft is held in high regard, but with the passage of time horror writing stopped being taken seriously. By horror I don’t mean just ghosts and witches, but all that frightens us–loss, deprivation, loneliness, mental instability, self-loathing and personal dissatisfaction. That’s where the writing of Shirley Jackson makes a powerful case for the kind of horror that doesn’t depend on jump scares. Her...
  • “The Bus” by Shirley Jackson [Everyone knows you can't go home again; but every once in a while, in a terrible nightmare, you are there.]

    03/02/2024 9:28:13 AM PST · by simpson96 · 11 replies
    Saturday Evening Post ^ | 10/27/2024 | Staff
    Miss Harper was going home, although the night was wet and nasty. Miss Harper disliked traveling at any time, and she particularly disliked traveling on this dirty small bus, which was her only way of getting home; she had frequently complained to the bus company about their service, because it seemed that no matter where she wanted to go, they had no respectable bus to carry her. Getting away from home was bad enough, Miss Harper was fond of pointing out to the bus company, but getting home seemed very close to impossible. Tonight Miss Harper had no choice: If...