And the winner is…
Xbox 360 won out in the end. PS3 has the Blu-Ray, but I’m just not that concerned with Blu-Ray right now. Maybe in the future I’ll get a PS3 or a Blu-Ray player, but...
Author: Erik Kain
Sad News
I wanted to offer my condolences to James Joyner for the sudden loss of his wife, Kimberly. James has long been a friend of this blog. To me personally, James has always been a...
Cyber Monday Wars: PS3 vs. Xbox 360
So I’ve been a PC gamer for a long time. I haven’t owned a console in years and this Cyber Monday I’m thinking about buying one. Already there are some good deals out there....
‘The Darkness that Comes Before’ Book Club Part One: The Monk and the Sorcerer
My apologies out the gate: I meant to post this on Monday, but the conference I attended over the weekend through everything into a tailspin. With that said, let’s begin… The first book in...
A song for Thursday
I’ve probably posted this before but it’s just such a great song. The Once and Future Carpenter, by the Avett Brothers I’m such a dork, I asked Lyle Lovett what he thought of the...
You say you want a revolution, well…
Michael Drew, in the comments: First the knock was that they’d never last. Now the problem seems to be that they hung on too long and things got a little ripe. I would counsel...
The Limits of Democracy and Populism
I have to admit, Occupy Wall Street has been irking me lately. Whatever legitimate gripe sparked the movement, the occupations began devolving into a frothy mixture of crime and partying within the last few...
An observation
I am at an airport and the internet is very slow. So far the only site that is not slow, not refusing to load, is The League. I cannot follow any of the many...
The League, Here and There and Back Again
I know Mark is working on a history of the League, and Patrick and Tod and others have been doing various posts about where readers and commenters and writers and so forth all hail...
Fantasy and High Fantasy
Alyssa Rosenberg and Adam Serwer both have responses up to my post on fantasy and the Anglosphere. Adam correctly notes that what I’m writing about in particular is “high fantasy” – a sub-genre of...
The dangers and the promise of a strong central state
I have a long(ish) piece up at Forbes asking liberals to take the civil liberties record of Barack Obama more seriously – I’m basically riffing off of this excellent piece by Conor Friedersdorf at The...
A League App for iPhone and Android?
Any ideas on how the League should go about developing (or contracting out the development of) an app for iPhone/iPad/Android, etc.?
Fantasy and the Anglosphere
When I published my fantasy piece in the Atlantic it was linked (reproduced?) by Richard Dawkins’ site and a number of the atheists in the commentariat had scathing things to say about fantasy literature....
The Prince of Nothing Book Club: The Darkness that Comes Before Part One
The Second Apocalypse is a projected nine-book series comprised of three separate-but-connected trilogies by R. Scott Bakker. The first of those trilogies is The Prince of Nothing, which opens with the first book in...
Bastiat and Stimulus
Matt Yglesias has a smart post up on Frederic Bastiat’s “What is Seen and What is Not Seen” essay, noting that ” the correct way to understand it is as precisely laying down the theoretical...
Social Forces and Vulgar Libertarianism
Will Wilkinson makes an important observation about the affinity between libertarians and conservatives. At the heart of the fusionism between the two groups, he explains, is the notion of individual responsibility. Whereas libertarians and...
Would you vote for Obamacare?
I thought we’d take Patrick’s post below and give it a much more straightforward twist. Feel free to explain your vote in the comments, but you have to vote! The poll will run for...
Democracy, Coercion, & Liberty
I’m afraid that in our recent discussion of democracy and coercion the conversation tended to hew toward the relative merits of democracy rather than on what I think was my more important point: namely,...
Egyptian Protesters March in Support of Occupy Oakland
Protesters in Egypt marched from Tahrir Square to the US Embassy to protest recent police violence in Oakland, CA where riot police descended on the Occupy Oakland encampment earlier this week, arresting many of the protesters...
The White Luck Warrior (and a new fantasy book club)
Don’t worry, no spoilers in this review. I just finished R. Scott Bakker’s novel The White Luck Warrior (Available at Amazon) a couple days ago. It’s the second book in his Aspect-Emperor trilogy and the fifth...
