Tagged: Warfare

A Healthy Commotion

May 8, 2014

Vox Fails at Explaining the Drone Arsenal Race

A Vox story on America’s drone arsenal has some more explaining to do.

A Healthy Commotion

August 27, 2013

On Syria

Wise words from a nerd on Syria, chemical weapons, and Western intervention.

History / The League

September 10, 2010

How to get rich quick in Medieval Europe

Note: I hope I’m not boring everyone with these digressions into the history of the Crusades, but I’ll stick with this example because Erik brought it up originally and because it aptly demonstrates that...

Law / The League

April 27, 2009

Why They Fight

Jim Manzi has written a provocative post on the moral distinction between battlefield killing and torturing unarmed POWs: So apparently it’s OK to inflict (the most extreme imaginable) violence when the guy is totally...

Editor Picks

Weekend Plans Post: Pantherine Vandals

March 27, 2025

James Joyce's Ulysse

POETS Day! On James Joyce’s Ulysses with a Few Poems Thrown In

October 6, 2023

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