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The fundamental flaw of the Islamic state
…is the indivisibility of secular law and religious practice: The idea of a separate Indian Muslim state, once it had been formulated couldn’t have been resisted. The idea was put forward in 1930 by a...
View ArticleFlickin’ the bean with Edward Cullen
A fan of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series has modified an Edward Cullen action figure so that it vibrates. For no particular reason. Then she went to a Twilight fan convention and asked one of the...
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Do SciFi nerds dream of believable interaction?
Due to the sheer volume of amusing John Scalzi quotes put up by Nicholas Russon of Quotulatiousness, I have wondered whether there might be life in the genre after all, and warily tuned in to AMC TV’s...
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The Tiger returns!
Blogger and friend Ben the Tiger is once again converting thoughts into electrons, over at his new literature-oriented blog—The Tiger Reads. I was a little sad when Ben shut down his previous blog, as...
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Turning the Titanic
A few days ago my wife spotted A Soldier First—the autobiography of General Rick Hillier, CMM, MSC, CD—at the library, and brought it home for me. It is an engaging read and the prose style is fairly...
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The first priority
…for any business ought to be “have a viable business model”. For a bookstore it shouldn’t be that hard; try ah, selling more books. That ought to work.
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General Hillier on the future of NATO
NATO had yet to articulate a clear strategy for what it was doing in Afghanistan. It failed to operate as one cohesive block in dealing with Pakistan, greatly diminishing its ability to affect what...
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The 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time
Find the Way, originally uploaded by JoMiD. In May of 2004, National Geographic Adventure magazine did the world a great service by creating a list of the most compelling adventure books ever published...
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Low key pioneer: a review of West with the Night
A review of West with the Night by Beryl Markham 293 pages. North Point Press, 1983. I was motivated to read this book based on its prominence (within the top ten) on National Geographic Adventure‘s...
View ArticleHumanity’s true face
Foreign policy scholar Walter Russell Mead argues that everyone should read science-fiction (or perhaps more accurately, speculative fiction), not because it has the best prose, plots or characters,...
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