Preface to “Studying War”, Part II (Conclusion)
Bits of this rewritten and expanded section were posted earlier.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: From my Bedside
I seem to remember that our sainted webmaster dislikes Diogenes stories, if only because they are largely apocryphal, but I’m ill in bed with the ‘flu.
Poem: Last Call
This song, which inspired Lawrence Block’s novel “When the Sacred Ginmill Closes,” is not for young people or the faint of heart, but it is carefully composed. Block and Van Ronk were good friends, and both were alcoholics.
Studying War: Preface
These paragraphs, now at the beginning of the chapter, were inspired by a drive to the Hosios Loukas Monastery in Central Greece
Wednesday’s Child: Guy Fawkes Day
And now, more grist to the mill. Another feather in my cap, or perhaps nail in my coffin.
Wednesday’s Child: The Conspiracy Perspective
Conspiracy theories are a great leveler. If in reality, as I see it, relationships between persons and things bring to mind medieval iconography or Egyptian painting…
Wednesday’s Child: The Tunnel of Love
The gentle reader may remember my post of a couple of months ago in which I proved to my own satisfaction – after all, isn’t this what counts in almost every contentious argument? – that the Russians did not kill JFK…
Autodidact: Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy, III
Our noble ancestors, we should always bear in mind, were never quite civilized people. They were descended from Goths and Saxons, Franks, Normans and Lombard. To the extent they were civilized, it was the result of the Christian Church and the study of the classics.
China Is Eating Our Lunch on Science
In modern times, science rules the world, followed by engineering. Get the science first, rule the world. That’s why China is on track to rule the world soon – if it doesn’t already
