Markham Shaw Pyle's Blog: Away down here...., page 2
October 24, 2012
When I was young, I didn't do humble worth a damn.
Fate, or Divine Providence, has spent three or so decades teaching me better.
So I am indeed humbled as well as honored to have been given the privilege of addressing the Darien Historical Society, up in Connecticut, on Titanic, come Sunday 28 October. Given that it's a story - at least in our telling: When That Great Ship Went Down: The Legal and Political Repercussions of the Loss of RMS Titanic - of the legal and political skulduggery, crony capitalism, Progressive racism, regulatory capture, insider trading, and the sacrifice of all principle in pursuit of an over-arching political project, the timing does seem mighty apt.
So I am indeed humbled as well as honored to have been given the privilege of addressing the Darien Historical Society, up in Connecticut, on Titanic, come Sunday 28 October. Given that it's a story - at least in our telling: When That Great Ship Went Down: The Legal and Political Repercussions of the Loss of RMS Titanic - of the legal and political skulduggery, crony capitalism, Progressive racism, regulatory capture, insider trading, and the sacrifice of all principle in pursuit of an over-arching political project, the timing does seem mighty apt.
September 23, 2012
Free speech & its enemies.
The first Bapton Books Position Paper has been published, and due to the importance of the issue, is available free of charge.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106680474/B...
‘Free speech, and freedom of the press and of publication as its corollary, to the very outermost limits necessary to an orderly society under law, is an absolute human right possessed of everyone on this spinning globe, and ought to be the basic presumption and fiercely-defended birthright of each of us.’ … ‘There is no “right” not to be offended.’
The partners in Bapton Books here issue a call to arms in defence of the right to think, speak, publish, and be heard, freely and without censorship.
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Bapton Books Position Papers, commonly authored by the partners and publishers of Bapton Books, jointly or severally, are made available free of charge (in many cases), or at a nominal charge, to the reading public and all those interested in the affairs of the day.
They are issued to inform, to question, to educate, to assert propositions for argument, to challenge, to analyse, and, always, to spark useful and intelligent debate.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106680474/B...
‘Free speech, and freedom of the press and of publication as its corollary, to the very outermost limits necessary to an orderly society under law, is an absolute human right possessed of everyone on this spinning globe, and ought to be the basic presumption and fiercely-defended birthright of each of us.’ … ‘There is no “right” not to be offended.’
The partners in Bapton Books here issue a call to arms in defence of the right to think, speak, publish, and be heard, freely and without censorship.
__________________
Bapton Books Position Papers, commonly authored by the partners and publishers of Bapton Books, jointly or severally, are made available free of charge (in many cases), or at a nominal charge, to the reading public and all those interested in the affairs of the day.
They are issued to inform, to question, to educate, to assert propositions for argument, to challenge, to analyse, and, always, to spark useful and intelligent debate.
August 7, 2012
Well, that was a week.
I might have been happy to celebrate Milton Friedman's centenary by contemplating healthcare economics ... but not from a hospital bed, which is where I was a good bit of last week (including when the news came that Sir John Keegan had died). It was a surreal experience ... but I may get a book out of it, so there's that.
Still don't care to repeat it any time soon.
Still don't care to repeat it any time soon.
July 11, 2012
In the on-deck circle.
We're busy at Bapton Books, commissioning MSS for a series of pocket biographies, Bapton's Brief Lives. (Pardner Gervase Wemyss is just about six hours my elder; another of our forthcoming authors is about two weeks' worth our junior. If you happen to be an author who turns 50 in July of 2012, drop us a line: it seems to have been a vintage month.)
Moreover, for Christmas, we are looking to have a history of 1937, that year of portent, out and selling. Floods, the Hindenburg, the New London School Disaster, wars and rumors of war, the squalid sequelae of the Duke of Windsor's abdication.... Makes 2012 look better than you might think, really.
So, neighbors: what are y'all thinking?
Moreover, for Christmas, we are looking to have a history of 1937, that year of portent, out and selling. Floods, the Hindenburg, the New London School Disaster, wars and rumors of war, the squalid sequelae of the Duke of Windsor's abdication.... Makes 2012 look better than you might think, really.
So, neighbors: what are y'all thinking?
Away down here....
Musings from the bottomlands, from Bapton Books historian and publisher Markham Shaw Pyle.
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