Sunday, December 11, 2011

So long and thanks for all the comments.

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I started this blog five years ago, late into high school and headed towards Tulane. I originally thought this was going to be about gaming...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The wars of the future will be the legacy of the austerity of the present

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Half the fun of reading foreign policy wonks is that at times they feel like the hipsters of the commentariot ; "Oh, sure, we're st...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fetishizing the Peasant

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Peasants into Frenchmen is a classic text in a niche field that hits at the very central problem of modernity: how does a nation convert it...
Monday, May 2, 2011

The Death of an Enemy

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The gestation period for revenge is 9 years, 7 months, 20 days. Or for justice. Or for closure. However you read the death of Osama bin L...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

One Part Fatigue, Two Parts Snark

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It is apparently really, really hard to be democratic, and impossible to be successful as an elected democratic leader if your last name isn...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Fantasy Wargaming: Nuclear Weapons in Videogames

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When I started this blog, I initially wanted to write about gaming. That's the reason for the "plastic" in the title. That m...
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Friday, December 18, 2009

The intersection of faith and politics

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Religion and Politics seem to be about where all my interests overlap. I've more experience in church governance than anything else outs...