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William Graham Sumner

July 25th, 2009

The danger of minding people’s business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another’s affairs. The “friends of humanity” almost always run into both dangers.

-William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other [1883]

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News Briefs July 19-25/2009

July 24th, 2009
  • Apparently there was a government media blackout over a multi-city outbreak of violence in France. Jean Raspail was right!
  • Microstate Madness – Europe in 2020.
  • Ten Lessons on Empire.
  • How the Jews maintained communal cohesion during the long Babylon exile.
  • Vatican reconciles with Oscar Wilde: “one of the personalities of the 19th century who most lucidly analysed the modern world in its disturbing as well as its positive aspects
  • Pakistanis who send jokes about Asif Zardari- the liberal Pakistani president and widower of Benazir Bhutto- risk being arrested and given a 14-year prison sentence.
  • Book review of the The Philosopher’s Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern Cook.
  • A Jacobean space programme? Forget Apollo and Sputnik: How a Briton launched the space race in the 1640s.
  • Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor reviewed here.
  • China’s Confucian Soft Power: Confucius is helping China spread its new-found influence throughout the world.
  • Evelyn Waugh’s Edmund Campion and its lessons for Catholic resistance in times of permeating disorder.
  • Man the barricades! Killer French chipmunks ready to invade Britain.
  • South Africa’s first Catholic saint to be a Black Israelite?
  • Leszek Kolakowski, R.I.P. The Polish “Marxist humanist” was critical of both Soviet Communism and Western Liberalism. MORE: Kolakowski vs E.P. Thompson.
  • He called himself a “Socialist without a Party, a Christian without a Church”-  Ignazio Silone was always a man apart. The life & times of yet another dissident Marxist…
  • That angry commenter on your blog may actually be working for the Israeli government. More: Israel’s Team Twitter.
  • The Protocols of the Elders of the Vatican? Justin Raimondo explores Israel’s “Nutbar Factor”.
  • Hitler-Grand Mufti photo circulated in Israel settlement fight.
  • The detailed service records of 250,000 medieval soldiers – including archers who served with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt – have gone online.
  • The Keynesian Revolution and the Neo-liberal Counter-revolution. Interesting piece but the “neo-liberal Freemasonry” charge doesn’t explain the decades von Mises, Hayek and similar voices spent in the academic and political wilderness. Keynes, Galbraith & co.- dripping with high-level government influence- could be more properly called a “freemasonry” of sorts.
  • Romanticism: pro- or anti-science?
  • Norman Lowell’s remarks at the book launch for Imperium Europa: The Book that Changed the World.
  • FREE FOR DOWNLOAD! Over five hundred pages of internal Process Church of the Final Judgment documents. Everything available from chants & hymns to more well known works such as “A Candle in Hell” to otherwise unavailable foundational documents like the “Xtul Dialogues” is collected here.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

July 19th, 2009

Simply by being compelled to keep constantly on his guard, a man may grow so weak as to be unable to any longer defend himself.

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo [1888]

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News Briefs July 12-18/2009

July 17th, 2009

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila

July 11th, 2009

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

-Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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