Darkness at Noon
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Darkness at Noon
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
|---|---|
| Published | 1940 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Koestler’s novel of Rubashov, an old Bolshevik arrested by the revolution he helped make and interrogated until he confesses falsely. It is after the reasoning rather than the cruelty — the interior account of how a true believer talks himself into the show trial, which memoirs and histories cannot reach. |
Where I heard about it
- Charlie Kirk — on @j_bambrick’s compilation of every book Kirk recommended across his episodes and videos, September 2025.
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Marxism and Collective Psychology, March 2026.
Connections
- Totalitarianism — the subject, seen from inside the apparatus.
- Socialism — the tradition Koestler came from and is arguing with.
- Propaganda — the confession as a public artefact, which is what the interrogation is producing.
- Ideological Family Tree — where this sits on the tree.
What links here
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