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West Hunter 
Thanks. I’ve read a few of these. The ones I haven’t all look intriguing. I definitely want to get hold of “The Global Seven Years War”. For many years I’ve enjoyed getting a rise out of people by pointing out that George Washington started the real “First World War”.
Only one I’ve read is “Legacy of Heorot.” Honestly, found the love triangle subplot to be something of a slog.
What happened to the blog?
Here’s my list: https://econstudentlog.wordpress.com/2023/04/25/books-2023/
Wilson’s Sociobiology book looks interesting, might have a go at that later.
A while back I tried to find Sociobiology at my local library, but instead of that what they had available was an edited collection of pieces about the controversy over it, containing just an excerpt of Wilson’s book.
Off-topic, but I’d be curious to hear Greg’s thoughts on this retrospective on PEPFAR, as both an expert on epidemiology and someone who has commented on multiple people involved in it.
Welcome back! Whatcha bin up to?
Talking of books I vaguely wondered about the age of the oldest available bit of the Old Testament. Wokiepedia surprised me.
Ketef Hinnom scrolls Oldest copy: c. 650–587 BCE
Dead Sea Scrolls Oldest copy: c. 150 BCE – 70 CE (fragments)
Two things: (i) a 500 year gap in the record? I hadn’t known.
(ii) Before the Dead Sea Scrolls the record consists of only one find. Were I a scientist interested in these matters I might want to look long and hard at that first item.
Thanks for the list.
I was wondering if you have seen Tucker Carlson’s interview of Bret Weinstein on the migration of millions into America, particularly through the perilous Darian Gap. Weinstein visited the area and spoke to many of these folks. He reports on who they seem to be, and even more importantlyon the military-aged Chinese males making the trek and what he suspects. Was wondering if you agree with him and what you suspect.
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/tucker-talks-to-bret-weinstein-on-d04
Weinstein is a loon. Carlson as well.
Carlson didn’t use to be a loon. I thought Ship of Fools, from 2018, was quite sensible! It was extremely dismaying to watch as the weirdness crept in, and I was only moderately surprised when Fox gave him the boot. Was he always that way underneath, or was it that same “rabbit hole” phenomenon that has ensnared so many basement dwellers? Either way it’s tragic, because some of the things he was saying — e.g., that the Democrats really do see illegal immigrants as potential future Democratic voters — need to be said, and nobody else with his stature in the media is saying them.