I recently came across an article on the history of the all-volunteer military. I found it fascinating, and so I thought I’d call your attention to it. Prior to reading it, if you’d asked me to sketch the history of … Continue reading →
I’m reading a book I find exceedingly fascinating. It’s called American Brutus, and it’s a fairly new biography of John Wilkes Booth, by Michael W. Kauffman. John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln are two figures about which most of us think … Continue reading →
I know it’s not a real cheerer-upper, but I recently read Tolstoi’s The Death of Ivan Illych. Actually, you could say that I re-read it, since my first encounter with the novella was in a Russian literature course I took … Continue reading →
I was reading a thread at LGF about Talabani’s selection as interim President of Iraq, when I saw this remark by a commenter named sandspur: Just saw a little clip of Talabani on FNC. Sorry I can’t quote him verbatim, … Continue reading →