Director | January 1, 2009
Adrian Pabst reviews The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization by Paul Froese at Times Higher Education. Note the similarity between the Soviet program to destroy religion and the ideas of American “liberals.” Ronald Bailey discusses Tom Daschle’s health care plan at reasononline. Why do liberals try to justify universal […]
Director | December 20, 2008
At the Literary Review, Simon Montefiore reviews History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks, by Sean McMeekin. McMeekin offers a detailed history of how Lenin’s loot was transferred to the West, a topic we only touched on in The Hidden Masters. The loot was mainly gold and jewels robbed from the Orthodox […]
Director | December 12, 2008
The Financial Times has offered a review of After Democracy by Emmanuel Todd. The reviewer, John Thornhill, doesn’t have much that is positive to say about Mr. Todd’s thesis, that only protectionism can save Europe’s social fabric, because Mr. Thornhill is devoted to globalism. Mr. Thornhill even offers the false analysis that protectionism caused the […]
Director | December 1, 2008
Alan Caruba offers a detailed review of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt at The National Anxiety Center.
Director | February 6, 2008
NWOU recently came across a nice article by Chalmers Johnson reviewing the work of Ha-Joon Chang, an economist at Cambridge University who specializes in Third World studies. Ha-Joon Chang is a Korean economist and author of Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (2002). Chang drew his theoretical orientation from German economist Friedrich […]
Director | January 12, 2008
Genocide is an important topic at NWOU. The Hidden Masters Who Rule the World exposes the ideological roots of genocide in Marxism, Darwinism, and eugenics. The Communists committed the greatest genocides, but the imperialist powers have also directed genocides. One aspect of this history involves nineteenth-century colonial genocides, which we did not discuss in The […]
Director | December 30, 2007
If we manage to turn our politics away from globalism toward localism, Wendell Barry will have something to say to us. Dan Simmons has a long piece on Barry in his August 2007 message, http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm. Click on the “past messages” link at the top right of that page to browse through Dan’s other messages.
