even though by rights it ought to--

And not just because it proves him wrong about all that Death of Western Culture nonsense and makes pointless his Where Have All The Classics Gone shtik.

I just don't think that lots of fans arguing about a movie treatment of a famous comic book artist's treatment of Herodotus count any more than Frank Miller' ( Read more... )

apparently you can max out the character limit in LJ. Who knew?

tomscud has done some must-read deconstruction on Robert Kaplan (and I have to admit that not only did I never read Balkan Ghosts because it was just too daunting to read a six-pound doorstop about a centuries-long lose/lose situation, call it moral cowardice or sloth or diagnose it as ( Read more... )