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Post by cato on Sept 26, 2019 18:37:42 GMT
I have noticed a few titles recently published that may be of interest to others. Cardinal Robert Sarah's The Day is almost spent has been translated into English and is getting attention on conservative catholic blogs.
Douglas Murray critiques Identity politics in his Madness of Crowds which I have seen on the shelves last week. The always sympathetic Guardian has described it as " genteel xenophobia ". I expect Murray will use that quote as a blurb.
Charles Moore of the Spectator will publish in October the third and final book in his trilogy on the Iron lady . Loath her or love her she is still quoted by both sides in the on going Brexit row as supporting their side from beyond the grave.
Serotonin by Michel Houellinbeecq has also been translated from the original for those of us with rusty minimal French. This time he takes on the beloved EU bureaucracy along with more familiar targets of meaningless lifestyles, ennui and general hopelessness. A perfect book for the lenghtening evenings.
I am not normally a fan of political memoirs but David Cameron has upset the Queen with his gossipy revelations on private conversations in his recently unveiled memoirs of his time in office.
Nearer to home Dr Peter Boylan a leading light in the Repeal campaign is printing his memoirs which may offer a view into the greatest defeat for Irish conservatives to date.
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Post by cato on Nov 9, 2019 16:08:18 GMT
I just finished Douglas Murray's The Madness of Crowds which deals with the modern woke obsessions of homosexuality, feminism , race and transexuality. He is an entertaining writer who has a wry sense of humour and a gift of pointing out the contradictions and absurdities of the pseudo intellectual discipline of intersectionality and the general victim culture. It's a good and thought provoking read. Although Murray is broadly on the right he strikes me a classical liberal , in the best sense of that word. He is gay but is not afraid to criticise many aspects of gay culture. Although he is an unbeliever he is sympathetic to traditional Christianity , more so than most of our religious leaders in the West.
He has an interesting chapter on the necessity for forgiveness in public life. This Christan virtue is conspicuously absent from the woke social justice arsenal who are strikingly intolerant and merciless to those who fall foul of the new moral police . Unless you are Justin Trudeau when you get a free pass to absolve you of cultural appropriation and black facing.
This is one of the best books I read in a long time. He has several videos on YouTube discussing it as well which are well worth a watch.
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