An American tourist in Russia
Today I jumped on Foreign Policy Review to talk about the Biden administration’s “target fixation” on Ukraine, the Trojan Horse of “civil rights” NGOs, how corruption in Russia compares with the USA, and how people today perceive Lenin and Stalin. And of course, what I think of the latest SBU drama with Gonzalo Lira.
The biopic about Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir premiered at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival and is scheduled for release in the USA later this month. I of course cannot render full judgement until seeing the full movie, but the theatrical trailer is crammed with every Biden 2024 talking point, so let’s start with those.
The Irish Brigade by J.F. Holmes, despite being a work of sci-fi, is a sharply written apologetic manifesto for neoliberalism and globalism.
For context, I’ve had a PDF of this book two years ago. However, there was the COVID lockdown, I took too much xanax, and my reviews and other writing endeavors were, ahem interrupted. Now, finally, I read it, and found the experience worthwhile. Contemporary art and literature is worth looking at because it says something about our culture and mood. The Irish Brigade is one such example. It’s a tirade against patriotism and morality.
After the end of history, everything becomes a self-referential blob, losing all association with the fading worlds of the past. Perhaps the most obvious example of this increasingly context-less meta is the “promotion” of Carrie Fisher’s “Leia” from the Star Wars. In the original trilogy, she was a princess. In the Disneyfied Star Wars universe … Read more
