Remember those bios we were publishing a while back of Pajamas Media contributors? Well, we’re still doing it, albeit it at a somewhat slower pace. The latest one is Orrin Judd of the Judd Brothers Blog - one of the best places on the ‘net (maybe the best, really) to look for book reviews. [It's not bad for recipes either.-ed. For a non-Singaporean.]
Roger L. Simon
Blacklisting Myself Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror
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Simon's first non-fiction book - Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in an Age of Terror - Pub. date: February 5, 2009 |
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1. David Thomson:Orrin Judd and I both agree about John Kenneth Galbraith. He gave the vastly overrated Harvard University economist an ìFî grade for his absurd The Affluent Society:
ìI think we can reasonably state that not only was this book spectacularly wrong, it actually did real damage to the United States economy and virtually destroyed several generations of Americans who became addicted to Welfare.î
http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/432
I personally argue that Galbraithís idocy set our economy back by about twenty five years. Judd is also right to wonder if The Affluent Society ìmay edge out (Rachel Carsonís) Silent Spring for the worst choice on this list, but the inclusion of both provides a valuable lesson about the invulnerability of liberal cant to contradictory facts and experience.î
Feb 9, 2006 - 4:28 am 2. jd watson:Brothers Judd is one of the few blogs I visit daily and one of the most unusual in the blogosphere. Orrin is a true character with a prodigious output of items, most much longer than is common elsewhere. His themes are the inherent conflict between liberty and security, the necessity of a religious foundation for moral society, the bankrupcy of European “rational” civilization, condemnation of scientism and the politicization of science, the merits of constitutional monarchy, the evils of cars and highways, and other topics various and diverse. Idiosyncrasies include the time-zone rule, the prohibition on self-reference, and occasional book contests to help prune his library.
Orrin has managed to attract a community of civilized and knowledgable commentors and remarkably few trolls. I highly recomment Brothers Judd and am glad to see it recognized by Pajamas Media.
Feb 9, 2006 - 4:45 pm