A Personal History of Moral Decay
4,540 words Bradley R. Smith A Personal History of Moral Decay Charleston, W.V.: Nine-Banded Books, 2014 “I’m setting out to see the world and make my fortune, just like they did in the old days. I...
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View ArticleThe Prophet of ExhaustionBeing Yet Another Remembrance ofBill Hopkins...
3,016 words Part 1 of 2 Hopkins, around the time of Declaration and The Divine and the Decay (1957). (Told in the discursive spirit, if not quite the style, of Jonathan Bowden.) “The evidence of...
View ArticleThe Prophet of ExhaustionBeing Yet Another Remembrance ofBill Hopkins...
4,109 words Part 2 of 2 Bill Hopkins 3. “The corrupt vigour of fascism.” In early 1958, Time magazine ran a humorous squib titled “Sloane Square Stomp.”[9] It told how Colin Wilson (and presumably...
View ArticleAn American Nationalist’s Observations on Sweden
1,535 words When I arrived to Sweden in February I had not seen much snow in over a year. I walked down an ice- and snow-covered road, learning to read the street names. I had drawn a small map in one...
View ArticleBetween the Devil & the Deep Red Sea: Miklós Horthy, Hungary’s Admiral & Regent
9,970 words Miklós Horthy A Life for Hungary: Memoirs London: Hutchinson, 1956 Thomas L. Sakmyster Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944 Boulder: East European Monographs, 1994...
View ArticleNight of the Chupacabra
6,544 words This is an excerpt from my memoir The Xena Years, about life in the nineties. It seems relevant today. I had just climbed out of the pool when the woman bowed towards Mecca. It was a hot...
View ArticleA Russian Romance Russian Views, Part Two
5,037 words Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here) In January of 2007, my e-mail offered a suspiciously cheery post: “Hello my dear Steven. Thank you for your answer!” I sent no answer nor, to my knowledge, any...
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