Part of the Why I Left the Left series
And was called a zealot for doing so by the New York Times
Today, 7th November, is the birth date of Albert Camus in 1913 in Algeria Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, was an early left critic of Marxist totalitarianism. He had been a member of the Communist Party of France and the Communist Party of Algeria in the1930s but rejected both […]
Today, 3rd August, is the anniversary of the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature almost 50 years ago, in October 1970. While few people could tell you who the latest laureate is, Solzhenitsyn’s elevation dominated the news globally in 1970. It was a major embarrassment to the […]
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Albert Camus in 1913 Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, was an early left critic of Marxist totalitarianism. He had been a member of the Communist Party of France and the Communist Party of Algeria in the1930s but rejected both the philosophy […]
Today is the anniversary of the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature almost 50 years ago, in October 1970. While few people could tell you who the latest laureate is, Solzhenitsyn’s elevation dominated the news globally in 1970. It was a major embarrassment to the Brezhnev regime […]
“All mammals have two sexes, and humans are mammals.”
Albert Camus, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, was an early left critic of Marxist totalitarianism. He had been a member of the Communist Party of France and the Communist Party of Algeria in the1930s but rejected both the philosophy and reality of what Communism meant when it became the state ideology […]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature almost 50 years ago, in October 1970. While few people could tell you who the latest laureate is, Solzhenitsyn’s elevation dominated the news globally in 1970. It was a major embarrassment to the Brezhnev regime in the Soviet Union and to those who had devoted a lifetime […]
I cannot believe it took them sixteen years. Shameful. Jokes aside, they really should just rename this thing the Nobel Prize for being a secular messiah and have done with it. Barack Obama won it, you might recall, after he announced that his election “was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to […]