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Author Archives: James Thomas Snyder
Moneyball and Blood Shed
In the movie Moneyball, based on the 2003 book by Michael Lewis, a young Yale-educated economist played by Jonah Hill explains to Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Bean, played by Brad Pitt, how baseball doesn’t know itself. “There is an … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged accidental death, active shooter, assault rifle, assault weapon, baseball, cigarettes, Columbine, domestic abuse, domestic violence, femicide, firearms, gender-based violence, gun, gun control, handgun, homicide, intimate partner violence, long gun, MADD, mass shooting, Moneyball, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, murder, Sandy Hook, smoking, statistical analysis, suicide, tobacco, Uvalde, violence prevention
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Epilogue (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy. AS I WRITE this the first diplomatic talks between Russia and Ukraine to resolve … Continue reading
Montenegro (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
Under my clothes my skin still kept the joy given by the salt water, the freshness had not left my blood. REBECCA WEST’S EXCURSION in Yugoslavia is coming to an end. That is clear in this slight chapter dedicated to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Adriatic, Albania, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, fascism, former Yugoslavia, Germany, guide, Intelligence, Italy, Montenegro, Rebecca West, Tirana, travel, travelogue, World War II
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Old Serbia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
I saw before me what an empire which spreads beyond its legitimate boundaries must do to its subjects. It cannot spread its own life over the conquered areas, for life cannot travel too far from its sources, and it blights … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Byzantium, Constantiople, former Yugoslavia, Islam, Kosovo, Milutin, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Turkey, Rebecca West, Serbia, Stefan Dushan, Turkey, Yugoslavia
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The Yugoslav Idea (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this “City of God.” St. Augustine THE ONLY QUESTION in western political philosophy is how people live together. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Politics and Political Theory, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia and Herzegovina, IFOR, Josip Broz Tito, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, NATO, Rebecca West, SFOR, western political philosophy, World War II, Yugoslav Idea, Yugoslavia
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Macedonia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
The argument here, in Sveti Naum, which has been recognized for a thousand years, is a persuasion towards sanity; a belief that life, painful as it is, is not too painful for the endurance of the mind, and it is … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Eastern Orthodox Church, fertility rite, former Yugoslavia, Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, Nicholas Velimirović, North Macedonia, OhridBitolj, Oveche Polje, Rebecca West, Serbian Orthodox Church, Skopje, Struga, Sveti Naum, Yugoslavia
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Serbia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“In the colourless light descending its vaults there waited Constantine’s wife, Gerda, a stout middle-aged woman, typically German in appearance, with fair hair abundant but formless, and grey eyes so light and clear that they looked almost blind, vacant niches … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Belgrade, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, former Yugoslavia, Holocaust, Ivan Meštrović, Kalemegdan Park, Karageorge, Karađorđević, Karl Silex, King Alexander I, Kingdom of Serbia, Obrenović, Queen Draga, Rebecca West, Serbia, Vladislav Vinaver, World War II, Yugoslavia
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Remembering Yugoslavia Meets Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
With many thanks to the Remembering Yugoslavia podcast and Peter Korchnak!
Bosnia (Blogging Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
“Look,” I said, “the river at Sarajevo runs red. That I think a bit too much. The pathetic fallacy really ought not to play with such painful matters.” “Yes, it is as blatant as a propagandist poster,” said my husband. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, The Former Yugoslavia
Tagged Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Bosnia, Dr. Judith R. Cohen, Flory Jagoda, former Yugoslavia, Gavrilo Princip, Judeo-Spanish, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Ladino, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Nina Šalom Vučković, Rebecca West, Sarajevo, siege, Vukosava Čabrinović, World War I
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James Thomas Snyder 