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Showing posts with label Nicolas Gomez Davila. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nicolas Gomez Davila. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2014

Six Other Books That Will Save Civilization

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Thanks to Aaron for suggesting this topic. Before I discuss the six books I have chosen, I would like to make two preliminary remarks. Fi...
Saturday, May 18, 2013

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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What the reactionary says never interests anybody. Neither at the time he says it, because it seems absurd, nor after a few years, because i...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Vanity of Human Hopes & The Abuse of the Printing Press

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This summer I went to a gigantic used book sale. How gigantic? Books filled at least eight large rooms, some of which would probably be bett...
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Meritocracy & Losers

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Some time ago now, I posted here a quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America , in which Tocqueville points out the me...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Compartmentalization

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At the very beginning of his autobiography, Dichtung und Wahrheit (Poetry and Truth) , Goethe describes the house he grew up in, with specia...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Authority and Custom: No More Etymology

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I must thank Aaron for a comment he made regarding my post on authority and power. He suggested that I think about the importance of the wil...
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