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Review: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian first came to my attention back in 2000 when noted literary critic, Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed on...

Zen in the Art of Future Warfare

[ by Charles Cameron — a highly interesting discussion, discussed ] . How to Write and Fight World War III: This is the video of a terrific discussion of the future of warfare — peacemaking, too, if you see them as two sides of a coin — from the Art...

Of morale and angels, Kiev and Ragnarok

[ by Charles Cameron — not to mention crushing Khomeini, lubing your M16, and that Afghan powerpoint ] . Andrei Rublev, The Archangel Michael ** In my previous post, Of morale, angels and Spartans, I raised the question of how our increasingly visual and...