November 2010
9 posts
From Freddie de Boer’s intro to his new online book club on The Name of the Rose:
There are other major events to consider in relation to the date of the book— pre-Columbus, it reflects a smaller known world; pre-Elizabethan, it represents a period before the English became one of the dominant practical and intellectual powers of Europe; pre-Copernican, it contains a world still...
In tribute to his recent legal problems,...
A personal appeal to Jimmy Wales, founder of...
indefensible:
If you’re asking anyone for money, wear a fucking tie, you chimp.
And shave.
(via pegobry)
“Yet our system obliges us to elevate to office precisely those persons who have...”
– David B. Hart | Anarcho-Monarchism | First Things
I’m trying to read Fire in the Minds of Men by James Billington, but it’s slow going. Every other paragraph seems worth reading aloud, googling some previously unknown topic, or jotting down for later. Then you hit a footnote like this, about a 1975 Russian text:
…this article provides a tantalizing hint of the analytic insight that the remarkable Soviet school of...
