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David Starkey

By On August 20, 2011

Was re-reading Enoch Powell instead of Mike Gold.

Ku Klux moralizers say the gangster system is not American. They say it was brought here by “low-class” European immigrants. […] But it is America that has taught the sons of tubercular Jewish tailors how to kill.

— Jews Without Money (pg. 37)

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Are Conservatives Racist?

By On August 17, 2011

I just finished reading a book for review, Michelle Ann Abate’s Raising Your Kids Right: Children’s Literature and American Political Conservatism (which I wrote about, in relation to the study of children’s literature, here). In Abate’s conclusion, she ponders the future of the conservative movement in relation to the grassroots enthusiasm generated by John [...]

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