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Author Archives: Blowhard, Esq.
Book Notes: “The Whig Interpretation of History”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This short essay — which can be easily read in a weekend or even a single sitting — is a useful rejoinder to the idea that there exists a “right side of history.” Butterfield, a Cambridge don, takes … Continue reading
Quote Du Jour: The Most Useless and Unproductive of All Forms of Reflection
Blowhard, Esq. writes: It is the natural result of the whig historian’s habits of mind and his attitude to history — though it is not a necessary consequence of his actual method — that he should be interested in the promulgation … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged Herbert Butterfield, history, progressives, Whigs
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Quote Du Jour: Usage Which is Reasonable Generates Usage Which is Unreasonable
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The usages which a particular community is found to have adopted in its infancy and in its primitive seats are generally those which are on the whole best suited to promote its physical and moral well-being; and, if … Continue reading
Book Notes: “A Disease in the Public Mind”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: All of the brouhaha over Confederate statues has rekindled my interest in the Civil War, so I decided to work my way through some of the books that have been cluttering my shelves. The first one is this … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History, Politics and Economics
Tagged Civil War, Confederate statues, fake news, John Brown
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Book Notes: “Vanishing New York”
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Jeremiah Moss, sole proprietor of the Vanishing New York blog since 2007, tells the history of the city over the last 20+ years in terms of, what he calls, “hyper-gentrification.” Hyper-gentrification is “gentrification on speed, shot up with … Continue reading
Posted in Books Publishing and Writing, History
Tagged gentrification, Jeremiah Moss, New York
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Juxtaposin’: Liberty Leading the People
Blowhard, Esq. writes: HT to Fenster for coming up with this idea.
Movie Still Du Jour
Blowhard, Esq. writes: A gathering of Communists in HAIL, CAESAR! (2016).
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