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Monday Night At The Movies: "If..." (1968)

Dear Gagglers:

Monday is, and has always been, a profoundly depressing day. That's why we have decided to add a little bit of fun to it.

On Monday, June 9, we are holding another film screening. Gagglers can watch a movie and, as they do so, offer comments, random thoughts, aesthetic observations and critical insights in the Live Chat.

We will be screening the winner of The Gaggle's "France and the spirit of 1968" poll: Lindsay Anderson's acclaimed 1960s classic "If...", starring Malcolm McDowell.

The film will starts at 3 p.m. ET sharp.

See you at the movies.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063850/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4_tt_6_nm_2_in_0_q_if

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The Gaggle Book Club: "The Betrayal of the American Right" By Murray N. Rothbard

Each week, the Gaggle Book Club recommends a book for Gagglers to read and—most important—uploads a pdf version of it.

Our practice is that we do not vouch for the reliability or accuracy of any book we recommend. Still less, do we necessarily agree with a recommended book's central arguments. However, any book we recommend will be of undoubted interest and intellectual importance.

Today's book club selection is "The Betrayal of the American Right" by Murray N. Rothbard. The book, written in the 1970s, argues that the original American right—libertarian, anti-imperialist and rooted in Old Republican non-interventionist ideals—was betrayed during and after World War II by its transformation into a statist, militarist, Cold War conservative movement. Though never published during his lifetime, the book was posthumously released in 2007 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Rothbard intended it to be both a personal memoir and a warning.

Born in 1926 in New York City, Rothbard earned a Ph.D....

The_Betrayal_of_the_American_Right_2.pdf

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More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

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