Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
[ by Charles Cameron — cross-posted from ChicagoBoyz ]
Pending a much longer post I’m working on about violent rhetoric and violence in public life — lined up behind a book review I must finish — here’s a DoubleQuote which neatly encapsulates the weirdness of the parallels between different versions of religious hatred:

Sad, sad, sad.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
by Charles Hill
Heard way too many good things about this book from regular commenters like Scott Shipman (read his review here) to ignore it. The blurbs on the dust jacket are from some genuine heavyweights (and provoked an amusing academic political tantrum masquerading as a review in FP.com from some minor departmental nemesis of Hill’s at Yale, where Hill is one of the founding lecturers of their Grand Strategy Program).
I will upjump this in my antilibrary queue to be read after I finish with Luttwak.
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