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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2009-01-08: Panic Now

Looking back, 2009 really was the start of a huge spike in the US Federal deficit. Until the COVID stimulus, it was the highest it had ever been. John J. Reilly also offered us some reflections on the death of Fr. Neuhaus, only three years before John’s own unexpected

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Legend of Anakin

Uller Uprising Book Review

Everytime I read a book by H. Beam Piper, I’m sorry I slept on it for so long. Uller Uprising is a tightly plotted tale inspired by, but not a retelling of, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857. And it has a introduction of some of the hardest science I

Linkfest 2022-06-24: The End of the Hoplite

A great Twitter thread on how innovations in military doctrine amongst the Greeks changed the world. West Hunter: Flerov’s Gambit Georgy Flerov was a young nuclear physicist in the Soviet Union who ( in 1943) sent a letter to Stalin advocating an atomic bomb project. It is not clear that

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