Daily Archives: January 5, 2021

Richard Spencer’s New Project – REM Theory (1-5-21)

00:00 How a livestreamer can enhance your life, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136269 04:00 Podcasting 06:00 The typical TV news report 12:00 REM Theory: Part 1, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8jCyVA1R2A 15:00 An introduction to REM theory, https://radixjournal.com/2021/01/an-introduction-to-rem-theory/ 45:00 Introducing LIONELMEDIA.COM (The Most Important Forum Available Today) 54:30 … Continue reading

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Historicism (The New Critical Idiom)

Paul Hamilton writes in this 1995 book: * Historicism is a critical movement insisting on the prime importance of historical context to the interpretation of texts of all kinds. It has enjoyed a long tradition of influence upon many disciplines … Continue reading

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The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History

From Amazon.com’s description of this 2013 book: “From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Moses, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009) earned recognition … Continue reading

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My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir by Betty Fussell

She was married to Paul Fussell. She writes in this 2015 book: * We began to give dinner parties in the slab house, enticing the Princeton literary set up Route 27 with lavish displays of food and drink. In Germany … Continue reading

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Jewish History: A Very Short Introduction

Professor David N. Myers writes: * we lack basic extra-biblical evidence that could attest to the existence of the Israelites and Moses in Egypt and, more particularly, to their flight to freedom. Even without overwhelming external evidence, the Israelites’ tale … Continue reading

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