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The Peshawar Lancers by S. M. Stirling Book Review

by S. M. Stirling $7.99; 483 pages I picked up this book [Amazon link] because Stirling co-authored several of the books collected in The Prince with Jerry Pournelle. I hadn't ever read a solo work by Stirling, so I was curious. I have had mixed success with

Google Maps for the Roman Empire

Google Maps for the Roman Empire

Orbis http://orbis.stanford.edu/# h/t Peter Sean Bradley

Burning Tower Book Review

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle $7.99; 655 pages I reviewed Burning Tower along with Burning City a year ago. I recently re-read them both, so this seemed like a good time to expand upon my rather cursory review of Burning Tower. Burning Tower picks up a year after

Thumos

The Art of Maniliness has a good post today on Thumos [ θυμός]. It reminded me of something I read just yesterday on James Chastek's Just Thomism, The American Student. Here is the passage from Got Thumos?: Why is it that many men seem so lacking in thumos today?

New Kipling Poems Discovered

New Kipling Poems Discovered

Rudyard KiplingThis month 50 unpublished poems by Rudyard Kipling will be released. Kipling is one of my favorite authors, so I look forward to these unseen works. Kipling has long been out of fashion, despite winning the Nobel Prize in Literature and being quite popular in his time. The Guardian

Tax inflows and outflows in Italy

Tax inflows and outflows in Italy

A while back I joked in a post about the the conquest of the Papal States about the prime exports of southern Italy being mafiosi while northern Italy exports luxury cars. Economic differences between the north and south were a factor in my review of Gunslinger Girls as well. There

Orson Scott Card on Tolkien and Joyce

Bruce Charlton excerpted a good essay by Card on his blog. I'm pretty sure I read Card's essay before, but it is worth reading again. So the "canon" consisted of books that readers, critics, and writers came to love and respect and pass from