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Notes From All Over 04/08/2018 (WEIRD Catholics, Chinese Intimidation Tactics, and Human Genetics)

05 August, 2018Books and Literature, Community, Culture, Europa Regina, Military Affairs, Notes From All Over, The Middle Kingdom

A collection of articles, essays, and blog post of merit. TOP BILLING “The Origins of WEIRD Psychology”Jonathan Schulz, Duman Barahmi-Rad, Jonathan Beauchamp, and Joseph Henrich. PsyArXiv. 2 July 2018. Recent research not only confirms the existence of substantial psychological variation around the globe but also highlights the peculiarity of populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, […]

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Book Notes — Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction

01 May, 2018Books and Literature, Political Theory

Antulio Echevarria’s Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction is a short and accessible introduction to military strategy, as ‘strategy’ is thought about and debated in American national security circles today. It will be a useful read for many simply as introduction to the terminology of the modern defense intellectual. Echevarria has both the strengths and weaknesses of […]

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Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Eye for an Eye”

26 January, 2018Books and Literature, By The People, Europa Regina, History, Political Theory

William Ian Miller’s Eye for an Eye did not make it into my “top ten books I read this year” list for 2017, but it was one of the more thought-provoking things I read last year. Miller is an unusual creature: part law professor, part medievalist, Miller is equally comfortable discussing ancient Hittite legal decrees, the […]

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Every Book I Read in 2017

01 January, 2018Books and Literature

Image Source It is New Year’s Day, and thus time for my annual list of every book I read in the preceding year. By listing a book as “read” it means I finished the last page of the book sometime in 2017, though some of these books I actually began before the year started—in the […]

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Notes From All Over: Communists, Partisans, and P-Values

27 October, 2017Books and Literature, Community, Culture, Domestic Politics, Notes From All Over, Political Theory, Spies and Spooks, The Middle Kingdom, Tyranny

Notes From All Over: A collection of recently published articles, essays, reports, or blog posts of merit.TOP BILLING “This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like“Megha Rajagopalan. Buzzfeed (18 October 2017). “In the countryside, if you get even one call from abroad, they will know. It’s obvious,” said R., who agreed to meet me in […]

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Learning From Old China

24 July, 2017Books and Literature, Community, Education, Possessions For All Time, The Middle Kingdom

Last week’s posting (“Everything is Worse in China”) caught the attention of Rod Dreher, who reblogged it with comments over at the American Conservative. I sent him an e-mail in response introducing a few Chinese thinkers who might be relevant to the traditionalist cause, especially in its Benedict Option version. As he has published the […]

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Everything is Worse in China

19 July, 2017Books and Literature, Community, Culture, Narrative, Religion, The Middle Kingdom

One of the benefits of living in China is a certain sense of perspective. China exists outside of the Anglophone culture wars. It would not be accurate to say the Chinese don’t have an opinion or even a stake in American cultural crusades. They do. But our fights are not their fights, and even when […]

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Every Book I Read in 2016

03 January, 2017Books and Literature

Image Source New Year’s Day has come and gone, meaning that it is time, per established tradition, to report the full list of books that I read over the last year. This tradition is now four years old, but I am still surprised with its popularity. These posts have not generated the highest hit counts […]

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Why I Read Thucydides

17 October, 2016Books and Literature, Romans and Grecians

Note to readers: The following post was originally published at Zenpundit as part of the on-going Thucydides Roundtable. I encourage you to follow the comment thread there and read the other participant’s posts as they are published throughout the week.On a summer night, nearly three thousand years ago, three hundred men of Thebes, wet and mud soaked, snuck into the […]

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Chiang Kai Shek’s Gamble–Reviewing Shanghai and Nanjing 1937

19 April, 2016Books and Literature, Dogs of War, History, The Middle Kingdom

Today Strategy Bridge published my review of Peter Harmsen’s two books on the upper-Yangtze campaigns that kicked off Asia’s World War II: Shanghai: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, and Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City. Here is an excerpt: ….Books focused on individual campaigns [of China’s WWII] are just now being written and published. Peter […]

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Notes From All Over 04/08/2018 (WEIRD Catholics, Chinese Intimidation Tactics, and Human Genetics)

Book Notes — Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction

Vengeance As Justice: Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of “Eye for an Eye”

Every Book I Read in 2017

Notes From All Over: Communists, Partisans, and P-Values

Learning From Old China

Everything is Worse in China

Every Book I Read in 2016

Why I Read Thucydides

Chiang Kai Shek’s Gamble–Reviewing Shanghai and Nanjing 1937

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