Monday, March 26, 2012

Running Away to the Air, 6: Brick Walls Always Stand Their Ground

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Edit: Oops, forgot to justify last night. A long time ago, I wrote a juvenile article about the RAF and Britain’s war effort. I called ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Art of Not Being Governed, I: Stateless Topographies and Illegibilities of Resistance

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So I promised that I'd talk about polo and bicycles. (Also fox hunting and the King's Cup Aero Race). How about this: aspirational s...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Electric City, I: The First Trip

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This post is not about Vienna, but Vienna could hardly not be central to it.For a young graduate student, too over-conscious of his own b...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Dreaming of Cavalry, IV: Death Ride of the Battlecruisers

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Wait. Jutland? What does a naval battle have to do with the Battle of France? Or the Somme, for that matter. And for such an anticlimactic b...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Dreaming of Cavalry, III: Seeing Death

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Cavalry, again. Specifically, what the Encyclopedia Britannica's designated expert thought it was going to be doing in the next war, a...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dreaming of Cavalry, II: Riding the Land

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So this is about the question, raised elsewhere, about whether the cavalry are a useful weapon of war or the  lifestyle of the landed elite....
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Thursday, February 16, 2012

A Dream of Cavalry, I: Galloping

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People dream of flying, and of going fast. In childhood, there were those golden days when we could just run on the green, or pedal our bik...