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La Argentina Despues de la Tormenta – Mis Comentarios

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

El punto clave creo de este libro de Francisco Santibanes, un pensador Argentino, es que la Argentina carece de una vision estrategica de largo plazo para fomentar su desarrollo y tambien fortalezer su posicion en un mundo cada dia mas … Continue reading →

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“Life Among the English” – A Review

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

This was a funny little book. It was not a work of academic scholarship, nor was it a popularization, novelesque approach to telling about the development of England as a social and political entity. It was more like a pamphlet … Continue reading →

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“Prisoners of Geography” – A Review

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

“Post Cold War” America, or maybe “globalist” America likes to believe that it has conquered the old tyranny of geography. Olden thoughts meant more for days when it took months to reach America by sea, when communication across the great … Continue reading →

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Borges

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

Writers love stories about other writers. “A Moveable Feast” or “The Warmest Country“; the tales of significance and its paucity by others who – like themselves – search for that unique brand of immortality. So a story about a writer … Continue reading →

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“Going Abroad” by Rose Macaulay

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

So I recently finished “Towers of Trebizond”, which was a masterpiece. So good that I immediately went on AbeBooks and bought another four books by Rose Macaulay. To see if all her work compares to her masterpiece. Alas, in this … Continue reading →

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Towers of Trebizond

Posted on June 25, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

This is how Rose Macaulay described the Black Sea in her masterpiece “Towers of Trebizond”, a: “…long strange, frightening, and romantic drama for which the Black Sea and its high forested shores seemed to me to be the stage. Some … Continue reading →

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Maoism: A Global History – A Review

Posted on June 19, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

Given the attempts at rehabilitation of Mao’s reputation being undertaken by the Xi regime of the Chinese Communist Party, it is warranted a better understanding of who Mao was and his global legacy in the second half of the 20th … Continue reading →

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Mission to Circassia

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

Circassia is an ancient country on the Black Sea coast between Crimea and Georgia, in the heart of the Caucasus. We’ve all heard of Armenia and Georgia and Ukraine; but Circassia has been integrated into Russia following the Russian/Circassian war … Continue reading →

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Night – by Elie Wiesel

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

“No, not in the twentieth century,” was the flippant answer of the Jews of Sighet in Transylvania when told of the ongoing holocaust by the Nazi German Government. “Not in the 20th century.” The century when I was born. Three … Continue reading →

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The Maze by Albert Likhanov

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Joel D. Hirst

This was a curious novel, by one of the Soviet Union’s most famous children’s writers. It is simple, as it is written from the POV of a young boy struggling through pretty normal problems in life unfortunately. Problems in the … Continue reading →

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