Archive for August 20, 2011

Literature Map

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1 year ago
by filistro in

 I know we have quite a few vora­cious read­ers here at Log­a­rchism, and so I just had to share this cool web­site which I recently dis­cov­ered (cour­tesy of Jonah Gold­berg, who rec­om­mended it) and I already find myself using all the time. You sim­ply enter the name of an author you like and the web­site will place that writer on a “lit­er­a­ture map,” sur­rounded by oth­ers who are more or less sim­i­lar. (The closer to the cen­ter of the map, the more sim­i­lar to your author of choice.)

And while we’re on the topic…found any good books lately? I’m always look­ing for rec­om­men­da­tions from peo­ple I know and trust. I just picked up Gilead by Mar­i­lynne Robin­son after some­body here in the forum (I think it was sftexan?) said it was a good read. I haven’t got­ten to it yet, but even a cur­sory glance tells me it’s a book I’m going to like a lot.

Listing To Starboard

53
1 year ago
by filistro in

By now it’s con­ven­tional wis­dom that the Repub­li­can Party has moved extremely far to the right. So far, in fact, that Michele Bach­mann (hereto­fore best known for this clip in which she demands that her fel­low con­gress mem­bers be inves­ti­gated for “anti-​​American ideas”) is now, incred­i­bly, a top-​​tier pres­i­den­tial candidate.

The GOP is so far to the right that it is prac­ti­cally meet­ing itself com­ing around the cor­ner, vot­ing against ideas that it once sup­ported, like tax cuts, and even ini­tia­tives Repub­li­cans once spon­sored, sim­ply because they are pro­posed by Democ­rats as pos­si­ble solu­tions to some of the nation’s problems.

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