The Battle for Europe

 

What's Your Blues Name?

Cultural Offering has your combination.

I guarantee it.

I may have found a new career.

Jailhouse Bad Boy Bailey

Novels on Dictatorships

Since we’re anticipating the fall of the Iranian theocracy, here’s an assortment of novels with insights on dictatorships.

The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Comedians by Graham Greene

Mendelssohn Is on the Roof by Jiri Weil

Life with a Star by Jiri Weil

The Wall by John Hersey

The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden

The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

The Conformist by Alberto Moravia

Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter

Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov

A Gentleman in Moscow by Armor Towles

[Photo by Adventure Albania at Unsplash]

The Good Old Days

 

The Go Bag

One of many excellent ideas from the prolific Nicholas Bate.

Iran is Falling but Islamism Spreads

 Ayaan Hirsi Ali has a warning.

Will Britain address the threat before it's too late?

Pick Up That English Book

The future belongs to the word people.

The engineers didn’t see it coming because they were too busy calculating.

- Peter Thiel

On My List

Lionel Shriver's immigration novel.

Here's the City Journal review.

Nazis with Turbans Are Beyond Diplomacy

 What to do about a suicidal evil empire.

Some wars cannot be avoided.

We Shall Fight on the Pie Charts

The history of great management and leadership accomplishments is always the history of an individual's special qualities. Prime Minister Churchill did not rally Britain by showing the people pie charts, opinion surveys, or grids of competitive analysis.

- Theodore Levitt