A super-deluxe birthday card in jigsaw puzzle form
The book travels across geography and time
Date Cake with No-Churn Tahini Ice Cream + Bourbon-Soaked Dates
As she learns about Henry and Silja’s spiraling relationship
From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower
Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations Poetry_Gift_Guide A super-deluxe birthday card inWestern Self Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence of cultural self hatred and its cyclical recurrence. Benedict Beckeld explores oikophobia, described by its coiner Sir Roger Scruton as "the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are identifiably 'ours,'" in its political