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Bram: A Spy Story.

Don't delay.

The Great Feminization of Culture

 

On Iran

 

On My List

The novel was great. Looking forward to this.

The Coming British Civil War?

"We Shall Not Fight on the Beaches"

The plot is simple. A huge armada of rotting hulks, bearing a million impoverished and half-starved Bengalis desperate to reach Europe, which they suppose to be a land flowing with milk and honey, sets out from Calcutta and eventually reaches the south coast of France. The local population flees before this invasion, no official efforts having been made to repel it. French society collapses; the success of the armada spells the downfall of Europe, and the whole of the West, as a civilization.

Read all of Theodore Dalrymple's review of The Camp of the Saints.

First Lines

It hurt us to breathe.

Inside a small barrack room whose remarkable cleanliness derived from its inhabitants' sweeping, scrubbing, and mopping three times a day, six of us lay down on worn mattresses of wool, with thin cotton sheets to cover us. Yellowish lamplight outside passed through the room's square windows without curtains, mixing with its darkness and recasting our surroundings in grisaille hues. 

- From The Monastery of the Damned: From the Ivy League to the French Foreign Legion by Nicholas Tobias

Hmm

 

"Seven Myths About the Iran War"

 Tablet magazine: Michael Doran on how people keep getting Trump wrong.

Win the War and Win the Peace

My Substack on the final stage of the Iran War.

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