8. Horton was an inspiration for the ranchers in Southwest who fought the “Sagebrush Wars” of 1980s over federal land. Mullins' theories of Federal Reserve (sparked by Pound) are a staple of conspiracy theorists.
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19. In Italy today, there is a neofascist group called CasaPound. The members call themselves ragazzi di Ezra: Ezra’s boys (not related to Vox). None of this is dead & over.
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20. If I were truly on the ball, I could've worked in Robert Anton Wilson (Pounder lover, Kenner correspondent & author of the Illumantus books).
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21. If I were also on the case, I would have brought in James Jesus Angleton (Pound admirer, CIA counter-intelligence expert, the man who dropped the ball on Oswald, torturer of many Soviet defectors). https://twitter.com/TCleveland4Real/status/1110368215979474946 …
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22. Anyways, if you want to read more about the cultural politics of the Pound era, here's an essay I did on Hugh Kenner & Guy Davenport. It's one of the best things I've written:https://newrepublic.com/article/153244/hugh-kenner-guy-davenport-letters-unlikely-literary-friendship …
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I hate that you are making so much sense on this s**t.
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Now do a thread on Dostoevsky's immense and continuing influence on Russian reactionary politics and anti-semitism.
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Phew. Kenner had quite the coterie of undergrads and graduate students in Writing Seminars (deliberate caps as the name of the program). Found the degree of adulation of him disturbing when compared to economics heavyweights such as Béla Balassa during the same time frame.
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