It took twice through, but I’m finally convinced; Beowulf is a wonderful film. There is plenty to recommend it, even if it had stuck to the original plot line. Nearly every frame is beautiful and riveting. The visuals seemed to have borrowed from the field of gaming, so you can never quite tell if what you are looking at is real or animated. The
The New York Times reports on the thrilling, spectacular, amazing, happy happy news that the Communist Party USA has donated its complete archives to New York University. What a treasure trove of glorious history here! The cache contains decades of party history including founding documents, secret code words, stacks of personal letters, smuggled
For some unknown reason, some of Wilhelm Röpke’s best work has long been out of print, including his 1959 book International Order and Economic Integration (maybe the title alone killed the book!). In any case, in prepping the volume for online availability, I can’t resist quoting this passionate statement about how the early generation of
William Anderson today talks about America’s pockets of socialism and how they collapse when tested. Meanwhile, in the prison called North Korea, there is massive flooding and disaster in an unimaginable scale, as socialist structures are washed away in the tide of history. “The heavy rain destroyed at least 800 public buildings, over 540 bridges,
It turns out that Garet Garrett wrote one last novel called Harangue, published in 1926. It tells the story of a socialist workers movement and its control of a North Dakota town (see the Wikipedia entry on the Non-Partisan League ). I nearly got in a car crash on the way to work because I couldn’t stop reading it. Anyway, I just have to pass on
Look at this wonderful pamphlet from 1946, called One Year After , by Virgil Jordon: WAR, which we profess to fear or hate, is only one expression of the growth of the power of the State over men’s life and work, which in recent years so many have come to accept, encourage or support as progressive and desirable. Economic warfare, class and labor
In the newest issue of American Affairs to see the light of day after 60 years, Garet Garrett once again carries the day: There are only two kinds of planned economy; and for all they may have, or seem to have, in common, there is yet a very simple way in which one kind may be distinguished from the other. You have only to ask: What is done with
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.