Kate seems to have been selected for her role of princess because she was irreproachable: as painfully thin as anyone could wish, without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character. She appears precision-made, machine-made, so different from Diana whose human awkwardness and emotional incontinence showed in her every gesture. Diana was […]
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Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion: who gets to read bad books?
Nov 21st, 2011 by David Osler.Karl Popper singled out Plato’s Republic as the blueprint for all modern totalitarianisms, while many other academics accord that status to Rousseau’s The Social Contract. As it happens, I studied them both in some depth as a student and I have kept the copies. On the next bookcase sits Seyd Qutb’s Milestones, widely considered the intellectual inspiration […]
