Daily Archive: July 23, 2011

A song for our times and an open thread

I don’t know about y’all, but it’s been a long time since I’ve had to exert myself so fully towards fighting off my natural inclinations towards pessimism and dread. And on that note: yay!...

Nationalism

However its boundaries may be constituted, a nation [is] a presumptive locus of sovereignty, and it has functioned in this way for much of world history, particularly during the modern era. Nations are said...

Terror

So it turns out the Oslo killings were carried out by a white Norwegian guy who is apparently a white nationalist. I’m quite relieved this wasn’t the work of Islamic terrorists since it would...