For a long time, we were lost in the darkness. Unable to tell what was problematic, or, if we dared push past our privelege to consider if it was problematic, to know just how problematic it was. Those. Days. Are. Over. For example, of course you knew that Wonder Woman’s costume was Problematic. That’s a… Read More Everything’s a Problem is the Tumblr You Didn’t Know You Needed
ThoughtCatalog is an interesting web site because it’s one of the few places on the Internet where you can reliably encounter diversity of opinion in the comment section. You can actually have a civilized discussion with people you disagree with. That’s a nice feature. So I decided to contribute something: 5 Things We Should Probably… Read More I’m Waxing Philosophical on ThoughtCatalog
First, a nice Mark Steyn obit on Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston makes a salient point: But, if you’re a feminist or a gay or any of the other house pets in the Democrat menagerie, you might want to look at Rahm Emanuel’s pirouette, and Menino’s coziness with Islamic homophobia. These guys are about power,… Read More Authority, Misandry, and Mixing: A Few Links to Start the Week
This is actually old content, a short story I burped out one cold dark afternoon and self-published in a notebook-collection called World’s Apart (by which I mean, I had the damn things printed at Kinko’s. This was before I had ever heard of Createspace). Since I started a new collection on Medium, I was scouring my… Read More Yet More New Content: In Winter.
I have long been fascinated by the Crusades, the Crusader states, and the military orders. Piers Paul Read’s The Templars is a magisterial book that fits in well with the newer generation of Crusade historians (good-bye, “ambitious younger sons”, hello “pious armed pilgrims”). The Templars, of course, met their brutal end before the Middle Ages were… Read More New Content: Demon-Killing and Caliphates
This is one of those Fridays that doesn’t feel like Friday. It feels like “Where did that week go?” Still, I’ll take it. Karl Rove can’t seem to scrape together the cash like he used to. Poor baby. Since the Scots have elected to stay in the UK, it never hurts to mention all the… Read More Friday Linkfest: They May Take Our Votes, But They’ll Never Take OUR FREEDOM
It’s not the post that Friday needs, but the post the Friday deserves: Stacy McCain Links Ray Rice and Gone With the Wind, and it’s a Full Read the Whole Thing. Ashley Wilkes becomes more manly than Rhett Butler in his formulation. I know, I know. Just go with it. At the Federalist, some lovely… Read More Friday Linkfest: This, That, and T’other
As part of my The Western Ain’t Dead collection. View at Medium.com
On the Flipboard. I call it Things to Read. In this issue: Victor Davis Hanson’s “An American Satyricon” Robert Stacy McCain’s “The Columbia Journalism Review is (Still) Decadent and Depraved” Jessica Khoury’s “Is It Science Fiction” An excerpt from Jordan Belfort’s Memoir, “The Wolf of Wall Street” And much much more (well, more anyway)!
A few things to read that other people wrote: Stephen Green points out how Krugman tries to make capitalism pay for the sins of statists. How Richard Nixon forced the North Vietnamese to sign a peace, and why Bob Beckel is mad. RS McCain ponders the ineffable WTF-ness of South Carolina politics. Jeff Goldstein respectfully… Read More Rocking the Links
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