Dear Ernie
I spent 3 weeks in Israel and Denmark and was a guest speaker for the Danish Free Press Society May 15. I spoke on Danish culture – the transcript and video of my talk appear in New English Review this month. Regards to Billy = I can’t get through to him on e-mail because he doesn’t have me on his list of ‘acceptable’ correspondents – please let him know. Israel was bustling and prosperous – no sign anywhere of tension. Best regards Norman See new video interview below and recent contributions to Florida Political Press see website = nberdichevsky.com Orlando, Florida; THE LEFT IS SELDOM RIGHT <http://www.nberdichevsky.com/html/publications.html#Left-is-Seldom> The Left is Seldom Right Click here Does it surprise you that in recent primaries, many young voters who supported Obama in 2008 cast their ballots for Ron Paul?; or that Israel in 1948 was the ‘Darling of the Left’ that now regards it as a pariah state. Can these terms be divorced from personalities, issues, and the regional, religious, ethnic loyalties that have so long been regarded as the ‘safe’ constituencies of the major parties? Have you wondered about or questioned the use of the terms “Right” and Left” that are bandied about incessantly? Did Jonah Goldberg’s best seller “Liberal Fascism” cause you to blink? “The Left is Seldom Right” takes off where Goldberg left off and challenges the traditional Right-Left model used unthinkingly to analyze parties, politicians and political platforms. I argue that the political terms Left and Right have often become stale clichés but that the Left has a vested interest in maintaining use of this terminology due to the pronounced left/liberal slant of the media and Hollywood. A large element in the book deals with how popular culture, particularly the movies Hollywood has produced on political issues has molded opinion in identifying its enemies with a distorted image of The Right and why Hollywood has never dealt honestly with the principled resistance in World War II to the Nazis on the part of conservative, Christian, monarchist, nationalist and authoritarian parties or the courageous women who initially were heroines on the Left but thought ‘outside the box’ and have since became vilified. <http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/the-left-is-seldom-right/> The Left Is Seldom Right | FrontPage Magazine interview with Jamie Glazov Canada Free Press - This is indeed a book that suits the times with the approaching American presidential election of 2012 in which a large segment of the public may be expected to follow the same trajectory of political thinking by rejecting the ‘glamour appeals’ of the Left with its penchant for identifying itself with so called ‘progressive’ policies. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Image001 A challenging and provocative look at the history of “right wing” vs. “left wing” political movements and personalities. “Dr. Berdichevsky shatters the ideological prism those terms impose. This book will change the way you view the political world, forever”. Rebecca Bynum, chief editor New English Review. The book consists of 25 case studies of major domestic and international crises, wars, alliances, conflicts, issues, and elections that have been the subject of considerable media opinion and comment and most often by the use of misleading Left-Right terminology. Links to recent articles, videos and interviews = <http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/?s=Norman+Berdichevsky> http://www.floridapoliticalpress.com/?s=Norman+Berdichevsky 10 minute interview with the author of The Left is Seldom Right <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLo2liT69pw&feature=channel&list=UL> Click to view THE LEFT IS SELDOM RIGHT by Dr. Norman Berdichevsky ca. 93,000 words Theory and the American Scene 1. The Origins of the Right-Left Metaphor 2. The Leftwing Tilt in Culture in Literature and Film* 3. The Sixties Revisited; The Age of Aquarius 4. Can It Happen Here? 5. The Gods That Failed But Still Enjoy a Favorable Press – The New York Times and the BBC* 6. Abraham Lincoln – Hero of the Left and/or the Right?. 7. The Religious Left as Potent as the Religious Right 8. ‘Freedom of Religion’; Not an Absolute Right 9. The Stalinist and Daniel Webster* 10. The Anachronistic American Jewish Affection for the Left* 11. Collective vs. Individual Rights; How the Constitution Has Been Assaulted and Balkanized by Multiculturalism/Affirmative Action* EUROPE Right Wing Dictators Oppose the Axis 12. Fascist Italy and Austria Hand Hitler His First Defeat* 13. Franco, Fascism and the Falange; All the Far Right?* 14. The “Reactionary” King Boris III and His Crucial Role in the Salvation of Bulgaria’s Jews in World War II* 15. The Soviet-Nazi Honeymoon, September 1939 – June 1941; Allies for one-third of the war* 16. The Danish ‘Far Right’ (Dansk Samling) Initiated the Resistance Against Nazi Occupation 17. The Two International Brigades; One Glorified (Spain) and the Other Forgotten (Finland)* 18. Ionnas Metaxas, Autocrat, ‘Fascist”, Monarchist and Germanophile Who Led the Greek Struggle in World War II AGAINST the Axis* LATIN AMERICA 19. The Cuban Communist Party Support of Both Batista and Castro* 20. Peronism; Argentine Populism of both the Left and the Right* ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST 21. How Israel Went from Darling of the Left to International Pariah* 22. Support for JIHAD on the RIGHT & LEFT from the Kaiser through Hitler to the Soviets* MARXISM AND POLITICAL THEORY 23. Marx, Stalin and Opportunism on The National Question* 24. Case Closed: The Utter Failure of Marxism-Leninism 25.Three Courageous Women Who Battled the Left and the Right: Sigrid Undset, Oriana Fallaci, Pilar Rahola.* The e-mail below was sent to me from a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dr. Berdichevsky, As a student at the University of South Florida studying politics, I wanted to thank you for your poignant thesis and ideas in your most recent book, “The Left is Seldom Right.” I ordered a copy and have greatly enjoyed reading it. The book has been incredibly helpful in cementing many of my own convictions as well as giving me an ability to counter the far-left lean of my classmates and professors. All the best. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
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