I think that Canticle for Leibovitz is one of the great speculative fiction novels of the 20th century, one of the great post apocalyptic novels of all time. It’s also become clear to me that a lot of people who are not as old haven’t read it. What more recent books would you compare it to?
Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World Day! It's a great day to hug a non-radioactive family member! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
I'm convinced! Sparta was apparently worse than I thought, and I always figured it was pretty bad - what with all the helots and probably "300" was mostly BS. bsky.app/profile/bret...
For instance that helotry was 'worth it' because it enabled the Spartans to be the greatest warrior-badasses ever.' Obviously not - the Spartans were militarily mediocre viewed against the broad Mediterranean. 11/
The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.
Reading an interesting dissertation on the evolution of corporate personhood in US law. 'Corporations are people too.' We all have an intuitive sense that the legal fiction here can be problematic in its implications. knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3479?...
Looking forward to the sequel, in which a constitutional scholar and a guy arrested at the Capitol riot debate democracy.
Janeway. I grew up on TNG, TOS,& VOY, but the strong women characters on Voyager changed my life as a kid. I don’t know if I’d be in Congress if that show wasn’t on TV. My dad was a huge Star Trek/Roddenberry fan & always talked about its social & political history. I could go on forever about ST 🪐
It credits a samosa hot-dish recipe! It has directions like "Throw in the jalapeño, ginger and garlic and fry for a minute or two until fragrant"! I'm hungry.
Putting on body armor, gas mask, and combat boots to arrest a creative writing professor whose diet is mostly hemp