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QotD: North America will never be a “bicycle” culture
Regarding bicycles, they, like motorcycles, have long since transformed from “a means of locomotion” to “a lifestyle”. Note that I’m only talking about AINO here. Everyone has heard that “more bicycles...
View ArticleSVT-40: The Soviet Standard Semiauto from WW2
Forgotten Weapons Published Jan 10, 2024 The Red Army was interested in developing a semiautomatic rifle clear back to the mid 1920s, and they spent about 15 years running trials and development...
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The CIA would “brief the press on matters of national importance … when ‘we,...
Jon Miltimore outlines the fascinating revelations from 1983 about how the CIA directly manipulated American journalists to propagandize certain issues in the way the Agency desired: One of Snepp’s...
View ArticleDisney: go woke, go broke?
spiked Published Apr 10, 2024 The Walt Disney Company has gone from being an international treasure to an international laughing stock. Its films are flopping at the box office and fans are fuming....
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All the ways A few of the ways Canada is broken
In The Line, Andrew Potter outlines some of the major political and economic pressures that prompted the formation of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, then gets into all the ways some of the myriad ways...
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QotD: Prepper fantasy versus prepper reality
… note that this is also a bit of a rebuke to the dominant strain of prepper fantasies, such as those I began this review with. Prepper fantasies are most fundamentally fantasies of agency, dreams that...
View ArticleFURY – How a Museum with a Sherman Made a Movie
The Tank Museum Published Jan 5, 2024 If you enjoyed the 2014 movie FURY, watch this and get the inside scoop behind The Tank Museum’s role in David Ayer’s Hollywood production. Ten years on from its...
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Busybody Alberta cabinet minister claims cheap booze is not in “compliance...
Chris Selley points and laughs at Dale Nally, Alberta cabinet minister with responsibility for the regulation of gambling, booze, and cannabis: Lauren Boothby on Twit, er, I mean “X” –...
View ArticleGreek History and Civilization, Part 6 – The Search for Stability
seangabb Published Apr 7, 2024 This sixth lecture in the course deals with the period of Greek history between the end of the Persian Wars and the assassination of Philip II of Macedon. Books by Sean...
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When it comes to media coverage of environmental issues “bad news sticks...
In Spiked, Matt Ridley debunks the attitude — universal among climate activists — that humanity’s mere existence is “bad for the planet”: A 16 foot high sculpture of a polar bear and cub, afloat on a...
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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...
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