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Gratitude

This fine Thanksgiving Day I’d like to offer my gratitude to my readers for their support. Your interest helps keep this place going, and I intend to maintain With Both Hands for as long as I am able. This is my hobby, so I do not depend on this

Cradle: Foundation and Traveler's Gate Trilogy are free until November 27th

Will Wight loves to give his books away, and it is again possible to pick up the first three Cradle books in the Cradle: Foundation ebook package, as well as the Traveler’s Gate Trilogy, which in what I assume is some kind of obscure joke, actually contains four books,

An Update on Karen Traviss and Galaxy's Edge

When I posted my review of Convergence, book 13 in the Galaxy’s Edge series, there was a lively discussion in the comments about Karen Traviss’ contribution to the Galaxy’s Edge universe, The Best of Us [Amazon link]. And today, from the official Galaxy’s Edge Facebook page, comes

Oblivion Movie Review

Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods." 2013’s Oblivion [Amazon link]

Will Wight on Planning Plot Points for Cradle

Over at his blog of dubious intent, Will Wight has gone into some mildly spoilerish detail about his planning process for Cradle. I won’t get any more spoilerish than Wight, who sticks to things from book 9 and before, but I do feel like my past reviews hold up

The Long View 2008-11-09: Zero Point History

I especially like this description of MMT in Federal finance as “quantum finance”. I have heard Republicans console themselves with the thought that the new Administration will not be able to carry out any very ambitious domestic projects, because it will operate under fiscal restraints. This is pre-quantum-finance thinking. There

Linkfest 2021-11-19: Common Good

The Post-Liberal Order: Big Mac Alasdair MacIntyre is a favored philosopher here at With Both Hands. I really enjoyed this account of MacIntyre’s talk “Human Dignity: A Puzzling and Possibly Dangerous Idea?“ I had always found dignity a bit vacuous of a concept, but I hadn’t realized just