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QotD: Architects and modern architecture
Eventually, the deeply impoverished language of Bauhaus or Corbusian architecture became evident even to architects, possibly the most obtuse professional group in the world (though educationists are...
View ArticleThe Legend of the Wiener Schnitzel
Tasting History with Max Miller Published Jan 9, 2024 Variations of wienerschnitzel throughout history and its legendary origin stories, and a recipe for a 19th century version. Fried breaded veal...
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“One of the banes of the traditionalist and neoreactionary is ideology”
Theophilus Chilton urges conservatives to rebuild the crucial social structures that modern life has so signally undermined: churches, the männerbund, and militias (and no, I’d never heard of...
View ArticleThe Death of Franklin Roosevelt
World War Two Published 12 Apr 2024 He lead his nation through the Great Depression, transformed it into a war-winning titan, and is working to shape the coming postwar world in his image. But today,...
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When there was an active counterculture
Ted Gioia on a recent oral history of the countercultural touchstone, The Village Voice: At the start of her oral history of The Village Voice, author Tricia Romano provides a “cast of characters”. It...
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QotD: Imperium in the Roman Republic
What connects these offices in particular is that they confer imperium, a distinctive concept in Roman law and governance. The word imperium derives from the verb impero, “to command, order” and so in...
View ArticleElmer Keith’s Revolver Number 5
Forgotten Weapons Published Feb 28, 2015 Elmer Keith’s No.5 Single Action Army is arguably the most famous custom revolver ever made. Keith had it built in 1928 after developing a friendship with...
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More evidence of Canada’s dwindling state capacity – not enough judges
Matt Gurney discussed this issue along with several others in this week’s Line podcast (highly recommended listening/watching, by the way): Superior Court of Justice building on University Avenue in...
View ArticleSoviets Take Vienna and Königsberg – WW2 – Week 294 – April 13, 1945
World War Two Published 13 Apr 2024 The prizes of Vienna and Königsberg fall to the Soviets as they continue what seems an inexorable advance. In the West the Allies advance to the Elbe River, but...
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QotD: Cereal cultivation also helped grow the centralized state
Sumer just before the dawn of civilization was in many ways an idyllic place. Forget your vision of stark Middle Eastern deserts; in the Paleolithic the area where the first cities would one day arise...
View ArticleThe MOST INCOMPETENT Railroad You’ve Ever Seen!
Southern Plains Railfan Published Jan 6, 2024 In today’s video, we recount the time Penn Central let nearly all of Maine’s potato harvest rot in Selkirk yard; ruining thousands of lives and nearly...
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Simon & Schuster, founded 1924
In the latest SHuSH newsletter, Ken Whyte provides a thumbnail history of the American publishing house Simon & Schuster: The firm was started by Richard Leo Simon, a Great War veteran and piano...
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Is “Big Trans” in retreat?
In the latest Weekly Dish, Andrew Sullivan considers just how much things have changed in recent years, especially with the publication of the Cass Report on the true medical situation for children...
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El Salvador’s approach to fighting serious crime draws gasps of horror from NGOs
In Niccolo Soldo‘s weekend collection of links, he devotes some attention to the amazing success of El Salvador’s current government in driving down the murder rate and why it’s causing much...
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QotD: Binding and non-binding rules
Describing situations in which violating a sound rule will make the world a better place is surprisingly easy. The reason for this ease is that the very purpose of rules – “the reason of rules” – is...
View ArticleMaking a Lie-Nielsen Plane From Start to Finish
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Published Dec 8, 2023 See the process of making the Lie-Nielsen No. 62 Low Angle Jack Plane: initial pattern making; pouring the castings at the foundry; machining, grinding, and...
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For you, is no autobahn
eugyppius on the German federal government’s latest brainstorm to achieve their mandated emissions targets: “Old Autobahn” by en:User:DF08 is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 . … despite the headlines, they...
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Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Impresa – the 1919 occupation of Fiume
Ned Donovan on the turbulent history of the Adriatic port of Fiume (today the Croatian city of Rijeka) after the end of the First World War: Fiume was a port on the Adriatic coast with several thousand...
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QotD: The mid-life crisis, male and female versions
Most men get over the strippers-and-sports-cars overreaction pretty quickly, generally to be replaced by a new outlook on life. The guys who have come through the midlife crisis are generally a lot...
View ArticleFrench M14 Conversion – the Gras in 8mm Lebel
Forgotten Weapons Published May 16, 2016 The French adopted the Gras as their first mass-issued metallic cartridge rifle in 1874, replacing the needlefire 1866 Chassepot. Quite a lot of Gras rifles...
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