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March 11, 2026

The Resentful Man

This post began when I was browsing through the The Manchurian Candidate for the fifteenth time—the novel, not the movies—published by Richard Condon in 1959. The novel starts with the abduction and brainwashing of an American platoon in Korea. The intelligence services of China and Russia psychoanalyze the soldiers of the platoon and make a decision about one soldier named Raymond Shaw, a marksman, whom they need to train as an assassin.

March 09, 2026

Nationhood, by Marcus Garvey

I really began to rethink my views about nationhood after reading The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, republished by his daughter Amy Jacques-Garvey in 1923. I had never even heard of Marcus Garvey until National Public Radio played some Reggae songs dedicated to Garvey on one of its programs, perhaps on Afro-Pop. (He was born in Jamaica.)

February 23, 2026

The David Betz interview

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