The Demands of Affordability
Affordability as a political demand. Lifestyle inflation, media-driven desire, and the safety standards race in American consumer culture.
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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: Kleptocracy as an Art
Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy from 1363: a French royal captive at Poitiers who built a principality through diplomacy, patronage, and...
The Writ of Futurism
Exploring the dynamic tension between habit and event as the driving forces of velocity in human time and the birth of radical newness
The Plantagenet Triptych: Dan Jones' Saga of English History
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...