Monthly Archives: August 2017

“Remains of the Day” – A Book Review

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

There’s something steady, steadying about the old country. Did you know that the first western experiment with sound money came when Henry I chopped off the hands of coin makers who were diluting silver with other metals while carrying out … Continue reading →

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On Monuments

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

A few months ago an Islamist terrorist was found guilty by the International Criminal Court in The Hague of having destroyed Timbuktu’s cultural heritage in his acts of vandalism against Sufi shrines; burial places of the great men after whom … Continue reading →

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‘Underground Europe Calling’ – A Book Review

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

For about a decade between the mid-1930s and 40s the early Labour party in the United Kingdom was heavily influenced by a little publisher called the “Left Book Club”. This membership ‘club’, which reached about 60,000 at its peak, published … Continue reading →

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“The Stranger” – A Book Review

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

“I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: ‘In our society any man who does not weep at his mother’s funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.’ I only meant that the … Continue reading →

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“The Old Gringo” – A Book Review

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

“Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” Porfirio Diaz Anybody who knows Mexico has heard of this perhaps apocryphal quote. It is said that every Mexican, when they wake up in the morning have … Continue reading →

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