Saturday, November 18, 2023

Spy Game

 


He Gets on Base

 


The Search



The search is not always how to be better than the competition. It is to find an area in which there is no competition.


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Bookshelf Blanket

 


Available here.

Friday, November 17, 2023

How the Chinese Think

 


Good Point

Ultimately unknowable, but I wonder what percentage of the *Bin Laden was right* people think J.K. Rowling is a monster.

- Conor Friedersdorf

Raymond Chandler Break

 Don't start reading a Raymond Chandler novel before you have to leave for an appointment. 

An excerpt from The High Window:

In the swivel chair at the desk sat an elderly party in a dark gray suit with high lapels and too many buttons down the front. He had some stringy white hair that grew long enough to tickle his ears. A pale gray bald patch loomed high up in the middle of it, like a rock above timberline. Fuzz grew out of his ears, far enough to catch a moth.


Will They Smile?

National Review: The administration has just made 10 billion dollars available to Iran.

A simple question: Does that move make Iran stronger or weaker?

Every Father in the Audience Remembers This Scene

 


Thursday, November 16, 2023

American Institute for Boys and Men



A new group has formed and it's long overdue. Read all of Jonathan Haidt's article here.


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