A Book of Hope in a Bad Season: ‘That Hideous Strength’
One of 12 Great Books
In a recent article about Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” I made a New Year’s resolution to read old books unfamiliar to me. Having selected Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Devils” as my next conquest, I had just commenced that story of Russian radicals when another book, not quite so old but still important, snared my attention and lured me temporarily away.
Let me explain. During the past month, my daily online explorations revealed that for several years George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” had often made the bestseller lists at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Readers were also buying Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” and Penguin had reprinted Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here,” a novel about fascism swallowing up American democracy.
By Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College
On September 17, Constitution Day, I chaired a panel organized by the White House. It was an extraordinary thing. The panelâs purpose was to identify what has gone wrong in the teaching of American history and to lay forth a plan for recovering the truth. It took place in the National Archives â we were sitting in front of the originals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution â a very beautiful place. When we were done, President Trump came and gave a speech about the beauty of the American Founding and the importance of teaching American history to the preservation of freedom.
Canada is NICE (and gay)
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12/15/2020 4:56:49 PM PST
by EvilCapitalist
(We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
12/15/2020 4:57:52 PM PST
by mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
You really do not want a government agency with the acronym NICE.
12/15/2020 4:57:58 PM PST
by Fai Mao
(There is no justice until PIAPPS is hanging from a gallows.)
Mount Athos
Canada, like most of California, is a Special Administrative Region of Communist China. Whether or not its residents have awoken to that fact is irrelevant. And this appeals to whom, exactly?
All
Whatever, I would bet there’s more gay people in San Francisco right now than in all of Canada.