Kyle Orton Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Bakhtiar combined a "sometimes reckless militancy" with "a Machiavellian pragmatism that preferred tactical flexibility to ideological purity", as Abbas Milani put it. Both were on show in the early 1960s: he counselled the Front to engage the Shah and join a coalition government

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#Latvia's Defence Minister Artis Pabriks says #Putin cannot rescue himself by the use of nuclear weapons in #Ukraine, a war he "has already lost". https://t.co/VvK6HeQaAS

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For @Commentary, @neontaster reviews Max Fisher's new book, "The Chaos Machine", which intentionally shows the way algorithms capture minds into ideological silos in an increasingly online world, and unintentionally shows its author to be one such captive. https://t.co/ms6Kv8XQMz

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New arrival today: @aa51_ansari's "Iran: A Very Short Introduction". https://t.co/dmULh6K4gp

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#pt: All quotes taken from "As Nature Made Him" (2000), by John Colapinto, about Reimer's life. (Two years after this, Reimer's brother died of an overdose and four years after publication Reimer killed himself.)

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Really enjoyable @TheRestHistory today with @Seb_Falk, author of the wonderful book "The Light Ages", speaking about "medieval science": the discoveries, the inventions, and the myths of this period as a "dark age". https://play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-history-podcast/112.medievalscience v @holland_tom, @dcsandbrook

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Interview with Oliver Stone: oddly sensible about nuclear energy (his new film), but still insisting the Guardian is too Right-wing, JFK was a "peace lover" and Biden is a Cold Warrior, and "Putin is a great leader for his country and the people love him." https://t.co/upxjhzYKO9

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When Hitler first met Mussolini in September 1937, he presented Il Duce with a leather-bound copy of the complete works of Nietzsche, whose philosophy both men admired. [John McCumber (2011), 'Time and Philosophy: A History of Continental Thought', p. 99.] https://t.co/Lw9oJenTth

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David Kaiser's "The Road to Dallas" (2008) followed a lot of the work done by the House Select Committee on Assassinations to conclude JFK was killed by a conspiracy involving the mafia and parts of the anti-Castro Cuban émigré population. Reviewed here: https://t.co/SGdGyGOWev

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Contains commentary from @akoz33 and (inevitably) references to @holland_tom's "Dominion". https://t.co/eOdxYJgoLY