Today is Primidi, the first of Nivôse, our Jacobin notable is Maximilien Robespierre “Citizens, do you want a Revolution without a Revolution?”

Today is Primidi, 11th Frimaire in year 234 of the first French Republic. This month’s notable is Madame Roland, an important and influential Girondin. One of my goals for Pluviôse […]

Today is 23 Brumaire, year 234. This month’s Jacobin is Saint Just. I’m going to try to have Frimaire posted on the first of the month, but we’ll see … […]

Citizens, have you ever been seized with such zeal for the Republic that you forgot if it was Primidi or Duodi? Is your heart filled with Jacobin enthusiasm? Rejoice! Vendémiaire […]

Recently, within the past four or five years, rabbits have really moved in to my neighborhood and are eating everything. I thought I’d keep track of the things they didn’t […]

I missed this when it was originally published, but this is a fascinating interview with Catherine Zuckert, author of Machiavelli’s Politics and professor at Notre Dame. I’m particularly interested in […]

Around many of the old palazzos of Florence, you’ll see these sconces, made of wrought iron, with an iron hoop and sometimes with a sconce for a torch above, as […]

I have sixteen copies of my Kickstarter special edition of Machiavelli left. They’re signed and numbered, and I’d like to clear them out as I’m starting (no really this time […]

I watched Beat Takeshi’s Zatoichi the other day and cranked out some art on the iPad using Adobe Draw. Takeshi had an incredible creatively fertile period in the 90’s and […]