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The Long View: The Beginning of Wisdom
John J. Reilly had quite a few thoughts about constitutional law. It should come as no surprise that he had some thoughts on Roe v. Wade. In this essay from 2000, John makes an argument very much like that articulated by Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement, that both the
Brita and Me
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Lysistrata as a Comedy
One of the things that I love about Twitter is that if you are prudent about who you follow, you can find some of the most remarkable information about history, archaeology, literature, and other complex topics, often posted pseudonymously.
Case in point, this thread on Lysistrata by Aristophanes Skinner Box.
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Darkness and Stone: The Lost Book 3
Darkness and Stone wraps up Peter Nealen’s WarGate series The Lost nicely. You get a cataclysmic final confrontation, endless chthonic horrors, and the phrase, “you mean you just guilt-tripped him to death?”
One of my favorite things about this series is that Nealen manages to give the impression that