Burke’s Semi-serious Anarchism
Oct 24[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] It wasn’t solely to make a mean joke at Wagner’s expense that I praised Bizet as the superior composer. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Case of Wagner In 1756, Edmund Burke published an anarchist tract titled A Vindication of Natural Society. Debate over the intention of the work has continued ever [...]
Pequod Erat Demonstratum
Oct 24It’s widely believed that a) the Starbucks coffee chain was named after the first mate in Melville’s Moby-Dick, because b) Melville’s Starbuck loved coffee. It turns out that (b) is false – Melville’s Starbuck has no particular affinity (caffeinity?) for the bean – but that (a) is nevertheless true: the founder was a Moby-Dick fan [...]
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