Thursday, October 22, 2020

Welcome to Weimar America - Crisis Magazine

Welcome to Weimar America - Crisis Magazine: Arthur Koestler is most famous for his Darkness at Noon, a book written in 1939 whose subject was the Stalin show trials of the thirties, when the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was exposed as the tyranny of a very bad man. Koestler wrote many other books, however, and one that I just read, Arrow in …

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Now Is the Time for War - Crisis Magazine

Now Is the Time for War - Crisis Magazine: Cervantes on his galley sets the sword back in the sheath (Don John of Austria rides homeward with a wreath.) And he sees across a weary land a straggling road in Spain, Up which a lean and foolish knight forever rides in vain, And he smiles, but not as Sultans smile, and settles back the …

Filme - Os Miseráveis (Les miserables 1934) part1