Daily Archive: September 14, 2010
Geoffrey of Villehardouin: “On the Conquest of Constantinople”
The conversation about the Crusades piqued my curiosity, so I read “The Conquest of Constantinople” by Geoffrey of Villehardouin, knight and historian of the Fourth Crusade. I’m certainly no expert on the subject, although...
Increased border enforcement leads to more migrant deaths
Adam Serwer posts this rather grim chart: He writes: "Skeletal remains" refers to those bodies so decomposed that cause of death couldn’t be determined. Perversely, increased border enforcement seems to have the effect of...
The Economics of Enlightenment
I have a short piece [here is the pdf download link] in the current issue of Econ Journal Watch, commenting on the recent ‘economic enlightenment’ survey Daniel Klein and Zeljka Buturovic published there a...
War blogging
So, after a good deal of pushback and a good deal of thoughtful commentary on my war posts, I think I’ll have to take a step back from my plunder/defense/folly theory of war. I...
Five Books on American Conservatism
Looking for a Fall reading list? You could do worse than a few of the titles from the Five Books symposium on conservatism.
Nietzsche, brought to you by Heineken.
Is Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals too long for you? Good news! Now you can just watch this Heineken commercial:
