Hadrian the Seventh: extracts (5)
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A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (37)
She had chiseled quite a bit of money from her father to go away to college to see what it was like “out there.” Unfortunately she found me. The trauma of our first meeting fed each other’s masochism and led to an affair (platonic) of sorts. (Myrna was decidedly masochistic. She was only happy when…
Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class
Given the top-notch endorsements from names of the calibre of Eric Kaufmann, Douglas Murray and Maurice Glasman, I’m very much looking forward to this read. Though written from within the British context, I fully expect that much of what Paul has to say will have salience to the US, Canada and other places besides. See Paul…
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Zeno’s Conscience: quotes (36)
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Michael Oakeshott Association 2021: Call for Papers
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Hadrian the Seventh: extracts (4)
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What wine meant to Roger Scruton
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Ved Mehta
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A Confederacy of Dunces: quotes (36)
As the magnificence and originality of my worldview became explicit through conversation, the Minkoff minx began attacking me on all levels, even kicking me under the table rather vigorously at one point. I both fascinated and confused her; in short I was too much for her. The parochialism of the ghettoes of Gotham had no…
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