Two Cheers for the Spanish Empire
Imperiofobia y leyenda negra: Roma, Rusia, Estados Unidos y el Imperio español María Elvira Roca Barea. Siruela, 2016. Paperback, $33. Reviewed by Alberto M. Fernandez The politically correct vandalism we see today in America against statues of Christopher Columbus...
On Fascists and Anti-Fascists in Spain
Varela: El general antifascista de Franco by Federico Martínez Roda. La Esfera de los Libros, S.L., 2012. Paperback, $41. Reviewed by Alberto M. Fernandez Fascism is in the air in Spain. Actual fascists seem hard to find but you wouldn’t know it from the political...
The Forgotten Farnese
Alexander: La Extraordinaria Historia de Alejandro Farnesio by Luis de Carlos Bertrán. Barcelona: Editorial Crítica, 2018. Hardcover, 614 pages, $61. reviewed by Alberto M. Fernandez The Golden Age of Spain was safeguarded by men of iron. Some, like the third Duke of...
"Don Quixote makes life the protagonist. The affirmation of life is truly Don Quixote’s quest. The venerable knight-errant seeks more than life from his life." — Pedro Blas Gonzalez.
Melissa Lane is one of many left-liberal thinkers seeking a middle ground between “canceling” great thinkers and those in the New Right who seek to co-opt them for their postliberal vision. - Jesse Russell