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A new book (which will be available in English) by Emmanuel Todd
Emmanuel Todd has written another book, and it has been translated into English. And, it is a book by Emmanuel Todd that I have been awaiting for a long time. The title alone is the clue. “From the...
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Recently purchased books
Photoed just now: Although, I should say that I didn’t actually purchase Kristian Niemietz’s book about Socialism. I tried to buy it, at a recent IEA event, but they wouldn’t take my money and just...
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Emmanuel Todd with cat
I am a fan of Emmanuel Todd, and I like cats, so, this: Found it here, via someone or other on Twitter (to whom deepest thanks). The new class struggle of which Todd apparently speaks is between French...
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The Screen of the Red Death – and transferring postings from the Old Blog to...
My Old Blog now, if you click on it, greets you with this graphic horror: Which puts me in mind of this old Vincent Price movie. No passing reader who happens upon that is going to go any further. This...
View ArticleEmmanuel Todd on the earthly rewards of aberrant beliefs
I’ve been reading Emmanuel Todd’s book, Lineages of Modernity. For any sort of review of this book by me, you will have to wait. But meanwhile, I did enjoy this snippet, about why people believe the...
View ArticleRodney Stark defends God’s Battalions
Recently I quoted a chunk from Emmanuel Todd’s Lineages of Modernity, in the course of which chunk Todd praised the historian Rodney Stark. I looked up Stark on Amazon and encountered a familiar book...
View ArticleHas television rotted brains?
When I did education blogging, this was one of the opinions I acquired, that television may not exactly rot the brain, but it does, shall we say, interrupt its development: One very specific factor,...
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The books I’ll be talking about this afternoon with Patrick Crozier
This afternoon, all being well, Patrick Crozier and I will finally get around to doing our podcast on the Industrial Revolution: Good Thing and here’s why it happened. I will be making the running and...
View ArticlePatrick and I finally did our Industrial Revolution podcast
In this posting here just over a week ago, I showed you all a pile of books, and said that if all went well I’d be recording a conversation with Patrick Crozier in which I’d speak about these books...
View ArticleOn how the English revolutionary ideology of improvement took its time
During a recent conversation that Patrick Crozier and I recorded (although as always Patrick did all the button-pushing and editing), about how the Industrial Revolution came about, Patrick asked a...
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