I can listen to Douglas Murray all day but what's more, I can read his books all day. My latest order was for three of his books: "The Madness of Crowds", "The War on the West", and "The Strange Death of Europe". $73.20 is a small price to pay to counteract the ten-second sound bites one is exposed to in the daily news cycle.
George Orwell wrote an interesting essay, "Books vs. Cigarettes", on the supposedly expensive hobby of buying books in which he concludes that "the average person was only buying, directly or indirectly, about three books a year [which] is not a proud record for a country which is nearly 100 per cent literate and where the ordinary man spends more on cigarettes than an Indian peasant has for his whole livelihood. And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive."
Orwell wrote this in 1946. If anything, the situation may be worse today which is why I try so hard to rectify it. Angus & Robertson doesn't mind.
