Category Archives: history

do you speak Algol?

Posted on Thursday, 2003 June 05 by Anton

DigiBarn Posters: Mother Tongues of Computer Languages

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According to John Ross (author of Unintended Consequences), What Shakespeare’s character Dick the Butcher really said was “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the legislators.” That’s a bit different suggestion, isn’t it?

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it couldn’t happen there, either

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 May 13 by Anton

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History (link from David Mankins) “You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,” he [the head of government] proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. … Continue reading →

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about that sorry wave of suicide bombings

Posted on Sunday, 2003 March 23 by Anton

Also found in the archives, whom to blame.

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1914 and all that

Posted on Sunday, 2003 March 23 by Anton

Paul Berman in Salon It becomes ever more obvious that the First World War was the great trauma of modern civilization. Something huge cracked in the First World War and has never been repaired. Out of the First World War … Continue reading →

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the peculiar American psyche

Posted on Sunday, 2003 March 02 by Anton

Failure and Fantasy, by Lee Harris. . . . tragically, the Arab world seems to be united in wishing to choose the same balm that the Germans chose after the Great War, the indispensable fantasy of those who refuse to face up … Continue reading →

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Ouroboros

Posted on Friday, 2003 February 28 by Anton

Alan Bock writes in the current issue of Liberty: The tactic of the “general strike” to shut down a country was developed by radical socialist theorists, known as “syndicalists,” early in the last century. Now, oil company executives are using … Continue reading →

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