[…] on the Riviera. I love Cafarkis. And liver.’ ‘Mary Jo’s intestines were chopped into hors d’ouevres – wafers for brave, free Americans who support us and will vote me queen. Courtesy of Ma and Pa Kopechne, who clutch Cushing’s crosses saying “We don’t care if it was murder. We are satisfied.” On to Fatima […]
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
Since the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known … Read more
[…] themselves as evangelical Christians, and a quarter believed they were living in the ‘end times’. That is a huge number: the equivalent of half of those who vote in Presidential elections. Premillennialism has also, Northcott thinks, influenced American religion more generally, making it much more Manichaean (the ‘good/evil’ thing), antisocial, crusading and war-like than […]
[…] as a Rhodes Scholar; and that Clinton referred to Quigley in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party convention. Holy moley! Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, is a […]
[…] versus capitalism); corporations having rights as individuals, an individual having absolute right; the KGB, the CIA; rule by elites, one by decree, the other in a popular vote; ever-expanding territorial land grab towards their Pacific and Arctic meeting points; destinies pursued With God On Our Side and many more. Briefly, some things which the […]
Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The … Read more
[…] Barney Greenwald reducing Commander Queeg to a gibbering mess in The Caine Mutiny and the gentle liberal Henry Fonda destroying Lee J Cobb to get his “not-guilty” vote in 12 Angry Men.’ I doubt if the publicity machine behind Frost/Nixon could have put it better. Here we have the interviews elevated to these ‘forensic […]
[…] of the 1950s and 60s he describes had so little influence that it was unable to prevent both the Heath and Thatcher governments from deregulating the City of London — and wrecking the manufacturing economy. Or, more interestingly perhaps, how it was that the Tories persuaded the manufacturing turkeys to repeatedly vote for Christmas… RR
[…] the British motor industry with a campaign of strikes.’ You can just see it, can’t you? Presumably it went something like this. Voice from floor: ‘Move the vote’. Chair: ‘Those in favour of destroying the British car industry please show.’ Fairly typically, Wright doesn’t bother to date this meeting, though from the context it […]
