Author Archives: Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.

The Myth of the Right-Wing Extremist

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible John Milton, Paradise Lost The Anglosphere stands transfixed by an elusive bogeyman: ‘right-wing extremism.’ And more than any other nation at the present time, the United Kingdom seems to be in the grip of a media-engineered moral panic bordering on paranoid hysteria. […]

T.S. Eliot and the Culture of Critique, Part Two

‘We must discover what conditions, within our power to bring about, would foster the society that we desire. … Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.’  T.S. Eliot, After Strange Gods, 1934. One of the most striking features of Julius’s T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form is […]

T.S. Eliot and the Culture of Critique, Part One of Two

“My house is a decayed house, And the Jew squats on the window-sill” T.S. Eliot, Gerontion, 1920. In a previous article I explored the nature of academic ethno-activism in the deconstruction of the cultural legacy of Ezra Pound. The article adopted the approach of a broad overview, emphasizing the scale of successive critiques and, to […]