Tag: books
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Steve Bannon: A Reading List
This site’s mostly archives now. I’m writing fresh things over at Substack — come say hi: www.miloandthecalf.substack.com There’s a lot of talk about Steve Bannon being the intellectual force behind the Trump administration. With Harvard Business School and Goldman Sachs on his resume, he’s certainly a smart guy. He’s also profoundly dangerous if you…
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Poundstone’s Prisoner’s Dilemma
Prisoner’s Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb William Poundstone Part biography of the genius John Von Neumann, part story of the development of game theory, and part history of the relationship between the academy and the defense department in the cold war era, this book (and everything else Poundstone…
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My Idiosyncratic Guide to Books on Postwar Fascism
I’m a little puzzled myself at how many books on post-war fascism I’ve read. What’s the allure? Perhaps its a fear that these ideas, which never went away, would one day resurface into the mainstream? Perhaps its trying to grapple with how anyone can be filled with this kind of hate and paranoia? However you…
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Adolf Hitler, magic yoga spaceman
So here’s a first (but hopefully not last!) guest piece from good friend, and great writer, V. Charm. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity, by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, New York University Press (2002). Few things are more tedious in political discussion than accusations that some politician or party is analogous…
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Ridgeway’s Blood In The Face
Blood In The Face: Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads and the Rise of New White Culture James Ridgeway Published in 1995 (the year of the Oklahoma City Bombing), Ridgeway’s Blood in the Face was, was the first serious book I read on the rise of post-war neo-Nazi formations like Aryan Nations and Skinhead…
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Coogan’s Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International
Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International Kevin Coogan When this book came out, I reviewed it for Maximum RockNRoll. I wish I could find that review now, but alas, it seems to have been lost in the pre-digital fog. However, with Evola and other post-war fascists back in the…
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Leonard and Gallagher’s Heavy Radicals
Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 Aaron J. Leonard In the late sixties and early seventies, many young American leftists began drifting away from the amorphous politics of the mainstream anti-war movement and towards a sort of militant leftism influenced by Moa. They formed first…
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Review: Elbaum’s Revolution in the Air
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che Max Elbaum In the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Students for a Democratic Society dissolved, some young leftists took the path of nihilistic armed struggled and joining weatherman, and other such groups. Others decided to take their lessons from Lenin ad Mao…
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2016: My Year In Books
In 2016, I embarked on a project where I tried to match my reading to the demographics of the U.S.* I set out to read 52 books broken down like this: 10 books (or ~17%) written by Latino writers 7 books (or ~13 %) written by writers from Africa or of African descent 3 books…
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