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How & Why Charles Bukowski Sucks, While Knut Hamsun is Great

Adam Kirsch published this in The New Yorker, March 14, 2005: The contrast with KNUT HAMSUN reveals just how conventional a writer CHARLES BUKOWSKI remained. There is nothing in his work even remotely like the episode in “Hunger” where the … Continue reading

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Hitler and Mussolini Weren’t Evil Geniuses: They Were Idiots

(Updated Feb 18, 2022) The other day I was reading an interesting article about the latest archeological discoveries in Pompeii, when I came across something that I found surprising: that, during World War II, the Allied aerial assault of 1943 … Continue reading

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Relieved to see Philosophical reflection, not the Axis defeat, led Trudeau to reject Fascism

The Times Literary Supplement reported, on 23.12.16, about the life and works of Pierre Trudeau, Democratic Father of Canada: “Pierre Trudeau’s library shows that he was a deep reader, first of Quebec nationalist writers and later of Hobbes, Laski, Jacques Maritain … Continue reading

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