Mar 18, 2010

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Lawyers & Sex Crimes: Further Thoughts on Covington’s Northwest Quartet

Note: The following ended up on the cutting room floor as I prepared “Birth of a Nation,” my review of Harold Covington’s Northwest Quartet, for publication. I decided to cut it for lack of space, and also because I thought that even serious criticisms seemed petty when considered alongside the Quartet’s towering virtues. I came across these words while...

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Mar 16, 2010

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Join the Dance!

A TOQ comment drew my attention to a 3-minute Internet video entitled “Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy” [YouTube clip] by Derek Sivers. There are some brilliant lessons packed into its short compass, culminating in this counterintuitive bit of advice:“The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow....

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Jul 25, 2009

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The Seven Samurai

It is remarkable really.Back in the 1960s I used to read about a “Marxist” Japanese movie entitled The Seven Samurai which supposedly inspired an equally Marxist (or was it existentialist?) American western knock off entitled The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen. Well, I saw the American version live at the theater and could not discern anything remotely Marxist...

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Apr 19, 2009

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Greek and Barbarian

The Landmark Herodotus:The HistoriesEdited by Robert B. StrasslerNew York: Pantheon, 2007Independent scholar Robert Strassler has produced far and away the best English edition aimed at the general reader of the work which remains the fountainhead of the Western historical tradition. Let us hope there is still a fit audience out there for it—men, that is, capable of learning what...

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