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A host of ebook deals

If you keep your eyes open, you can find good deals on ebooks in the Amazon Kindle store, especially collections that offer a lot of value. David Feintuch’s Seafort Saga is a series I got into because John J. Reilly reviewed the whole bunch in 1997, a 1950s ish

Its Reapin' Time

Reaper, book 10 of Will Wight’s Cradle series is up for pre-order on Amazon. As is his usual practice, Will is making the first six volumes of this series available for free on Amazon Kindle until 10/23. If you haven’t picked up this series, why not check

The Long View 2008-11-05: The Obamarama Begins

John J. Reilly makes some predictions here that we can assess from the perspective of hindsight. An Obama Administration, one suspects, could initiate more military interventions than the Clinton and Bush II Administrations combined without losing the support of the MSM. John saw this clearly. The Democratic Party today is

Linkfest 2021-10-15: The Limits of Chaos

DarwinCatholic: War, Mobilization, and the Nation State Friend of the blog DarwinCatholic looks at a concept we discuss here often, the capacity of the nation state to mobilize and organize its people for grand proejcts. DarwinCatholic: Soldier Cultures, Warrior Cultures In a follow-up to the above, DarwinCatholic looks at the

The Cold Equations

Dominic Cummings re-posted a link to his 2017 discussion of systems engineering as applied to politics, and since it touches on just about every theme I like to discuss here at With Both Hands, I thought it would be worth exploring in some detail. Systems engineering is something you could

The Long View 2008-11-02: The Inner Emigration

This blog post of John J. Reilly’s from the 2008 American presidential election should be a good reminder that the craziness of recent years is an extension of things that were already happening a decade ago. The Inner Emigration There are people who call me a barbarian because I

The Long View 2008-10-26: It's 1989 in America

I have no idea whether the alternative cover of The Village Voice that John Reilly mentions in this blog exists. It is probably one of those things that if it doesn’t exist, it should. This is another one of John’s attempts to synthesize his own work. There was