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Linkfest 2017-04-07

* The 15th-Century Monk Who Crowdsourced a Map of the World A really fun map, and as the article reluctantly notes, not especially credulous about the tall tales travelers shared. * How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons I've linked stories on Uber's evil genius

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise Book Review

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez-Morera ISI Press 2016 $29.95; 358 pages ISBN 978161017095 It has been quite a while since I've read a proper work of non-fiction in book form. I tend to get all of my non-fiction reading as journal articles, blogs

The Long View: Art: A New History

Paul Johnson is the Howard Zinn of the right. Like Zinn, he is really popular, but also like Zinn Johnson is also willing to bend the facts to tell the story he wants to tell. If you keep that in mind, Johnson's books can be fun and even

Linkfest 2017-03-10

Why the campus protests at Middlebury matter C. C. Pecknold argues the position I took last week: the existing political coalitions in the US are breaking up. The four fallacies of warfare, according to Donald Trump’s new national security advisor John J. Reilly used to argue for #4 on

The Long View 2004-09-17: Millennials; God; Holy Censorship; Rathergate

John was absolutely right here about the relative influence of C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. Lewis is a big deal to British and American Christians, but Freud was a big deal everywhere. Let's use Google ngrams to illustrate: Sigmund Freud compared to C. S. Lewis in American

The Long View 2004-08-10: Stability; Jesus the Kid; Heinlein

John Reilly mentions Robert Heinlein's nuclear survivalism in passing here. Since I am a child of the sunny 80s, the dark days of the Cold War often seem remote to me. However, I do know that a great many things in mid-twentieth century America were done in part

LinkFest 2016-12-31

Last link roundup of 2016. Happy New Year! Stun guns and male crew: Korean Air to get tough on unruly passengers This article is interesting for all kinds of reasons. The proffered explanation that "Asian carriers including us [Korean Air] have not imposed tough standards because of Asian culture&