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LinkFest 2020-10-02

Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait A fascinating look at Albrecht Dürer’s slightly scandalous self-portrait. ASTEROIDS: BY THE NUMBERS A detailed look at Asteroids by RETROGAME DECONSTRUCTION ZONE. Asteroids was meant to be something of a physics simulator, but with interesting adaptions to make the

Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers Book Review

Dinner at Deviant’s Palace [Amazon link] is a bit unusual for a Tim Powers’ book, a post-apocalyptic adventure rather than a secret history. In my own mind, it has been overshadowed a bit by The Anubis Gates [Amazon link], possibly Powers’ most famous novel, released two years earlier. Yet,

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George Weigel has himself experienced a firestorm of criticism for writing an article in First Things concluding that President Truman deciding to use nuclear weapons in an attempt to accelerate the end of the war was the least worst option. Both Weigel and those who have defended him stand accused

The Long View 2008-01-14: Bush & Gog; Hillary Found Out; What Damian Thompson did not expect; Variant Korans

Apparently the comfy chair did not dissuade Damian Thompson from his muckraking ways. Bush & Gog; Hillary Found Out; What Damian Thompson did not expect; Variant Korans Many persons hold President Bush in light esteem, but few actually identify him with Antichrist or his precursors. Nonetheless, that is the gist

LinkFest 2020-09-25

Welcome back to LinkFest, my weekly look at interesting things I’ve read, as well as retrospectives on my two main projects here, With Both Hands and The Long View re-posting project. Theodore Roosevelt and the Case for a Popular Constitution TR is a common subject here at With Both

The Long View 2008-01-10: Education for Failure & Fraud; Fort the Postmodernist; V-Objects; Yes We Can (Again); Taxes v. Contributions

John J. Reilly quotes Stefan Theil’s “Europe’s Philosophy of Failure”, but didn’t comment [in 2008] on this very neo-liberal declaration that catches my eye [in 2020]: In France and Germany, students are being forced to undergo a dangerous indoctrination. Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free

Five Maidens on the Pentagram by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review

Five Maidens on the Pentagram [Amazon link] is another brutally funny and devilishly inappropriate satire from J. Manfred Weichsel. I saw another review that described Weichsel’s style as “shoot the hostages”. Since I can’t phrase it any better than that, I will shamelessly steal it. Absolutely no one