by John | Oct 20, 2025 | Ayn Rand
As Rand completes her walk along the corridors, I too, will end my regular monthly Ayn Rand blog. Her works are a rich storehouse of nonsense dressed up as philosophy, but even the most capacious store can be emptied. Only when something new is added will I return to it, to plunder a little more.
by John | Oct 11, 2025 | Uranie
The abundant fiction surrounding the British navy in the time of Nelson abounds with descriptions of the brutal punishments by which discipline was maintained but in the French navy many captains worked by consensus rather than by threat; one of these was Louis de Freycinet.
