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Hans Holbein: Capturing Character

At First Things magazine, Jane Coombs writes about the art of Hans Holbein. I used Holbein’s portraits of St. Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell to illustrate John J. Reilly’s review of Peter Ackroyd’s The Life of Thomas More because Holbein’s portraits so vividly capture the personalities

Linkfest 2022-02-11: OG Conan

Voidpunk: The Original Conan Stories of Robert E. Howard The three illustrated volumes of Conan the Barbarian [Amazon link] published by Random House were my literary introduction to both Conan and Howard’s work in general. I highly recommend these volumes. I mentioned these in another Linkfest three years ago.

Ed West's Asabiyyah is Free on Amazon January 9th

Ed West’s Asabiyyah is free on Amazon today. With Both Hands is a Ibn Khaldun respecter, so I recommend you get this book while you can. Other books by Ed West The Path of the Martyrs

Linkfest 2021-12-03: The Burden of Proof

The Harvard Crimson: Burden of Proof This math course sounds kind of awesome. One of my few regrets is that I didn’t go further in mathematics. I wouldn’t have had enough preparation for this course as a undergrad, but I find it fascinating all the same. BasedCon: A

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]

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

Linkfest 2021-09-17: The Great Tree

A thread on the strange connections in technological development. And my favorite comment, a joke about Civilization tech trees. BBC: Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era The now long defunct Anthropogene blog had some great stuff on the pre-history of Arabia. There was a time when Arabia was