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Edge of your seat

7 June 2025

9:00 AM

7 June 2025

9:00 AM

A Front Row Seat at the End of History: The Untimely Essays of David Martin Jones and M.L.R. Smith, 1999 -2024 M.L.R. Smith & David Martin Jones

Bruges Group, pp.278, $42.42

Great news for admirers of entertaining and refreshingly honest thinking and writing about our world: a bonus volume by the late David Martin Jones and his partner in political incorrectness M.L.R. Smith.

The lot of an independently minded academic in this century has rarely been a happy one. Social psychologist Irving Janis coined the term ‘groupthink’ in 1971, consciously modelling it on the terms ‘newspeak’ and ‘doublethink’ that George Orwell introduced in 1984.

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