Showing posts with label author. Show all posts
Showing posts with label author. Show all posts

Saturday, August 07, 2021

Famous author Daniel Silva crashes and burns

I used to really like a good new Daniel Silva book. I remember Newt Gingrich, an author himself (and former Speaker of the House), made reference to his writing.

After finding out that Silva's wife works at CNN, I realized why I was liking his books less and less--and now, I certainly won't waste any more time on him.

Anyone who doubts that Liberalism makes even people as smart and talented as this man go stupid and go deep really, really needs to read this article at American Thinker:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/daniel_silvas_emthe_cellistem_a_beloved_author_goes_off_the_rails.html

R.I.P. author Silva.


Saturday, April 07, 2018

Albert Jay Nock: Perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers

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Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy, and culture, and does so almost inadvertently.

His stories, lessons, observations, and conclusions pack a very powerful punch, so much so that anyone who takes time to read carefully cannot but end up changed in intellectual outlook. One feels that one has been let in a private club of people who see more deeply than others. This is truly an American classic.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

2/13/1974

"Man has forgotten God, that is why this has happened" was Solzhenitsyn's response when questioned about the decline of modern culture.

A Russian author, Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for eight years by Joseph Stalin, as he described in his autobiography, Les Prix Nobel: "I was arrested on the grounds of what the censorship had found in my correspondence with a school friend, mainly because of certain disrespectful remarks about Stalin, although we referred to him in disguised terms. A further basis for the 'charge' were drafts of stories and reflections which had been found in my map case."

Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970 for writing The Gulag Archipelago, but the Communist government did not allowed him to leave the country to accept it. Finally, under international pressure, the Soviet Union expelled him on FEBRUARY 13, 1974.

The following year in Washington, D.C., Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned: "I...call upon America to be more careful..because they are trying to weaken you...to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat-one that has never been seen before in the history of the world."

American Minute with Bill Federer