No, O Prince
Nov 09There are five different Robert E. Howard movies currently slated to come out over the next two years. Should I be excited? Not if induction from the wretched history of past adaptations is anything to go by.
Cruising for Hitler
Nov 09This upcoming Tom Cruise movie about Claus von Stauffenberg’s failed (do I really need to say “failed”?) 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler is worth a look, and AICN’s comments are interesting: It is a pretty subversive film, the suggestion to – during a war time situation – to assassinate and kill not just the leader [...]
Rage for the Machine
Nov 09[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Thanks to the Mises Institute, Isabel Paterson’s 1943 classic The God of the Machine is now online (as a honking big PDF file). The book’s central thesis is that there are systematic analogies between political structure and engineering structure, and that the freest and most prosperous societies historically have been [...]
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