Category Archives: humanities

no surprise in Zimbabwe

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

Am I the only one who remembers that in or about 1980 Robert Mugabe said frankly that his plan was for an orderly legal transition to a one-party state? Maybe it’s a false memory.

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orthoepy

Posted on Friday, 2002 April 26 by Anton

Anybody in France: Is Le Pen pronounced like pin, pan or penne? Update: François Velde writes, “The last; it rimes with haine . . .” [‘hate’]

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just a bit late for April 19

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 21 by Anton

Riot in Boston: How Today’s Media Would Have Reported It

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lexicon lust

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 21 by Anton

Saturday at Moe’s I found a recent reprint of the great Monier-Williams dictionary of Sanskrit (1899) for $35, about a quarter of what I had expected to pay someday for it. Whee. I find, by the way, that Indian printing … Continue reading →

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where the Chicks are

Posted on Sunday, 2002 April 14 by Anton

I’ve just been invited to join Amazing Grace Tract Fellowship on InJesus.com. We provide Chick tracts and other materials to Evangelical Christian Missionaries worldwide. Is this someone’s twisted joke, or was my address harvested because I mentioned Chick last month?

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the late unpleasantness

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 April 09 by Anton

Recent reading: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. DiLorenzo (Prima/Forum, 2002). Despite the title, this book is less about Lincoln himself than about his ambition, Republican policy in … Continue reading →

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blinked and missed it

Posted on Thursday, 2002 April 04 by Anton

Most Overrated Events of the 20th Century — as chosen by (what else?) a Web poll in 1998-9