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A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda—using your money to do it. Read to the End Substack Email: jacksonkeats2023@proton.me Follow on X Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The American Founders believed that a republic depends on certain masculine virtues. Senator Josh Hawley thinks they were right. In a bold new book, he calls on American men to stand up and embrace their God-given responsibility as husbands, fathers, and citizens. Read with me: Aspiring Authors jacksonkeats2023@proton.me Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at Read to the End on Subst...

We take a look at Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. Read to the End Substack Buy Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India...

Artificial “machine” intelligence is playing an ever-greater role in our society. We are already using cruise control in our cars, automatic checkout at the drugstore, and are unable to live without our smartphones. The discussion around AI is polarized; people think either machines will solve all problems for everyone, or they will lead us down a dark, dystopian path into total human irrelevance....

A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time. Read to the End Listen Audible Paperback Kindle Edition mailto:jacksonkeats2023@proton.me Hosted on Acast. See...

The Bed of Procrustes, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs...

Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book passes under review all of Nietzsche's previous works so that we,...

We take a look at the first book of The Bible, The Book of Genesis, covering creation of the world and promises to the Israelites. Once Upon a Vampire Read with me: Aspiring Authors kawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...

We take a look at Please Stop Helping Us by Jason L. Riley. In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding Black Americans back. Minimum-wage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but they price a disproportionate number of Blacks out of the labor force. Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address...

Dave Chappelle invited titan Elon Musk up on stage in San Francisco and the reaction was unexpected anywhere except San Francisco. The Notorious SBF is finally arrested to ensure he can evade Congressional questioning. And the Cambridge Dictionary changes the definition of the word woman. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Rea...

We take a look at Emma by Jane Austen. Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, A...

Covering the news for the week of December 6, 2022. Canada has a perverse incentive to kill its citizens, Elon Musk releases the Twitter Files, and ChatGPT is the next step in conversational AI. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.comFinally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See wha...

This is the second part of our look at The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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There are several important stories for this week including the collapse of FTX, protests in Iran, and Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Hosted on Acast. See acas...

We take a look at The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley. This is Part 1. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations—controlled by the robber barons of the modern era—are the gravest threat to Am...

We take a look at the infamous Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolut...

We take a look at the new horror/thriller False Positive and the Guillermo Del Toro show Cabinet of Curiosities. Read with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kanye West made some discriminatory remarks on Twitter and has been roundly condemned. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We take a look at A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell. Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constraine...

We take a look at the article by Louise Perry, "I'm 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation." Read the article HereOnce Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus Korner on Substack Consider supporting the show on Patreon See what I'm reading on Goodreads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

We take a look at Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson and the new drama on Hulu The Bear. The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.Carmen Berzatto, a brilliant young chef from the fine-dining world is forced to return home to run his family sandwich shop - the Original Beef o...

We take a look at Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns. Reissue. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Twitter @KawFee_Haus Read new articles at KawFee Haus...

We take a look at For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight” and one of the foremost classics of war literature. Once Upon a VampireRead with me: Aspiring Authorskawfeehaus@protonmail.com Finally on Tw...

This is the second part of our look at San Fransicko by Michael Shellenberger. Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the decriminalization of drugs, affordable housing, and alternatives to jail and prison. But as homeless encampments spread, and overdose deaths skyrocketed, Shellenberger decided to take a closer look at t...