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Review: Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere, by James Bloodworth

Jun 11, 2025By Eric Lee

From the very first page of this compelling book, you’re in the thick of it. James Bloodworth describes participating in a course to teach him how to pick up girls in London’s Leicester Square. That…Read more…

Jun 11, 2025Eric Lee

Review: In the Heart of the Fire, by Dean Koontz

May 11, 2025By Eric Lee

I must be the last person on the planet to discover Dean Koontz, who has sold something like 450,000,000 books. (I’m not making that up.). This one is a novella, part of series about a,…Read more…

May 11, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life, by Timothy Ryback

Apr 30, 2025By Eric Lee

There are a few things that Hitler and Stalin shared, despite the obvious differences. Both men began their lives deeply committed to their faith, and considered life as clergymen, before turning on the church. Both…Read more…

Apr 30, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power, by Timothy Ryback

Apr 21, 2025By Eric Lee

Writing history has one serious problem: how does an author maintain suspense when the outcome is known in advance? Timothy Ryback does this very successfully in Takeover where one can easily imagine another result in…Read more…

Apr 21, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Dissolution, by Nicholas Binge

Apr 5, 2025By Eric Lee

What a strange book. It has elements of time travel, but it’s not really a time travel book. Much of it consists of an interrogation taking place we don’t know where in which the interrogator…Read more…

Apr 5, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Stalin, by Harold Shukman

Mar 29, 2025By Eric Lee

This is one of a crop of very short biographies of Soviet dictator published in recent years. Here is what I loved about it: Harold Shukman is a well-known academic, an expert on Soviet history….Read more…

Mar 29, 2025Eric Lee

Israel has had enough of Netanyahu

Mar 26, 2025By Eric Lee

Public opinion polls in Israel consistently show that Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government cannot win the next election. The parties of the centre and left are consistently polling higher than those of the right.  And it’s…Read more…

Mar 26, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Red Widow, by Alma Katsu

Mar 25, 2025By Eric Lee

First of all, that’s a great title for a spy thriller. But “Red Widow” is not a great spy thriller. Having spent many hours reading it, I don’t see the point of the story. Not…Read more…

Mar 25, 2025Eric Lee

Why the Left should support increased defence spending

Mar 19, 2025By Eric Lee

The Left has a long and proud history of anti-militarism.  One cannot help but look back in admiration at the American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs who went to prison after making an anti-war speech…Read more…

Mar 19, 2025Eric Lee

Belarus: Time for solidarity

Mar 11, 2025By Eric Lee

Last week I interviewed Lizaveta Merliak, who runs Salidarnast, a group campaigning in support of the embattled independent trade union movement in Belarus.   Liza was an activist in the Belarusian unions who was forced to…Read more…

Mar 11, 2025Eric Lee

Review: The Crossing Places, by Elly Griffiths

Mar 10, 2025By Eric Lee

I read best-selling author Griffiths’ latest novel, which involved time travel, and in the end I wasn’t impressed. But I have friends who are really hooked on her crime fiction starring Dr Ruth Galloway, an…Read more…

Mar 10, 2025Eric Lee

Marx & Engels on the German elections

Feb 25, 2025By Eric Lee

At the start of the Cold War, in 1952, a book came out in the USA and Britain entitled “The Russian Menace to Europe”.  The authors were listed as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.  A…Read more…

Feb 25, 2025Eric Lee

Review: The Frozen People, by Elly Griffiths

Feb 25, 2025By Eric Lee

Elly Griffiths is the author of two very successful series of novels, knocking off dozens of titles. She apparently has a huge fanbase. This book promises the be the first of a series featuring Ali…Read more…

Feb 25, 2025Eric Lee

Munich 2025: Return of the “Guilty Men”

Feb 18, 2025By Eric Lee

As Karl Marx famously wrote in 1852, “Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as…Read more…

Feb 18, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Freud for Historians, by Peter Gay

Feb 12, 2025By Eric Lee

“Both history and psychoanalysis are sciences of memory, both are professionally committed to skepticism, both trace causes in the past, both seek to penetrate behind pioues professions and subtle evasions.” So concludes historian Peter Gay…Read more…

Feb 12, 2025Eric Lee

Goma and Global Capitalism

Feb 12, 2025By Eric Lee

“More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN.” That’s from a BBC report a few days ago.  This horrific…Read more…

Feb 12, 2025Eric Lee

Review: All You Need to Know … Stalin, by Claire Shaw

Feb 9, 2025By Eric Lee

This attractive, well-illustrated short biography of Stalin is part of a new series featuring prominent historians including Max Hastings and focussing on some of the biggest issues, including the Third Reich, the British Empire and…Read more…

Feb 9, 2025Eric Lee

Review: Roman Malinovsky: A Life Without a Cause, by Ralph Carter Elwood

Feb 5, 2025By Eric Lee

This is not the first time I have read this short book and that’s probably because it is proving to be so useful to me in my understanding of how the tsarist police (the Okhrana)…Read more…

Feb 5, 2025Eric Lee

Trump’s Favourite President

Jan 29, 2025By Eric Lee

Last Monday was Donald Trump’s first day in office as President and he raced to issue a series of “executive orders”.  One would imagine that these reflected his highest priorities as well as those of…Read more…

Jan 29, 2025Eric Lee

Review: The Mind of Stalin: A Psychoanalytic Study, by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

Jan 22, 2025By Eric Lee

This is a surprisingly interesting book. In just 143 pages (including extensive footnotes), the author examines many aspects of the Soviet dictator’s life through the prism of Freudian psychoanalysis. And many of his conclusions are…Read more…

Jan 22, 2025Eric Lee
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