Mishima: Runaway Horses. Seppuku. Life. Art. Death.
Review of Yukio Mishima's Runaway Horses (1969). Terrorism and life imitating art.
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The Wise Men: Forty Years Later
Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas's The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
Celebrating the 200th: The Correspondence of Adams and Jefferson
The letters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from the Revolution through their late reconciliation, in Lester Cappon's edition.
John the Fearless: You Stab My Back and I'll Stab Yours
John the Fearless (1371-1419), Duke of Burgundy: the murder of Louis of Orleans, Agincourt, and his assassination at Montereau.
John W. Nevin: Reformed Critique of the Altar Call
John Williamson Nevin, Mercersburg Theology, and Hart's biography: a high-church Calvinist take on the anxious bench, revivalism, and the altar call.
English Common Law and a Birth of Bureaucracy
John Hudson’s Formation of the English Common Law: Anglo-Saxon shire and hundred courts, royal justice before Henry II, and the slow birth of...
Is Cryptonomicon's Pontifex algorithm any good?
Pontifex, the playing-card cipher from Cryptonomicon: how Bruce Schneier’s Solitaire algorithm works, its keystream biases, and real security...
Philip the Bold: Duke of Burgundy, 1363-1404
Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy from 1363: a French royal captive at Poitiers who built a principality through diplomacy, patronage, and...
Dan Jones' Plantagenets, Henry V, and the Wars of the Roses
Dan Jones' Plantagenet triptych — The Plantagenets, Henry V, and The Wars of the Roses — as popular history for reading and listening.
Alinksy's Rules for Radicals
Summary and commentary on Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: community organizing, tactics, conflict strategy, and the legacy of Chicago-style...