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Habemus Doctorem

By on August 4, 2013

Some speculation via quotation:

THE MASTER: “There is some evil in all of us, Doctor, even you. The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature, somewhere between your twelfth and final incarnation. And I may say, you do not improve with age.” – The Ultimate Foe (1986)

THE DOCTOR: “Sorry, wasn’t it obvious? The Dream Lord was me. Psychic pollen. It’s a mind parasite. It feeds on everything dark in you, gives it a voice, turns it against you. I’m nine hundred and seven. It had a lot to go on.” – Amy’s Choice (2010)

THE GREAT INTELLIGENCE: “The Doctor lives his life in darker hues, day upon day, and he will have other names before the end. The Storm, the Beast, the Valeyard.” – The Name of the Doctor (2013)

So might Capaldi be playing the Valeyard? Capaldi doesn’t look enormously like Michael Jayston (he actually reminds me of Craig Ferguson), but he does look more like Jayston than Tennant or Smith do.

I know the big V.’’s supposed to be just after 12, not just after 11, but the Hurt Doctor might throw the count off. And indeed the narrative function of the Hurt Doctor might be precisely to advance the count so that Moffat can do the Valeyard storyline before he quits as showrunner ….

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Tales of the Mighty Dead

By on July 21, 2013

This coming week I’ll be lecturing on “Mises vs. Friedman on Economic Method” (old lecture) and “Neglected Pioneers of Free-Market Thought” (new lecture) at Mises University; then the week after that I’ll be lecturing on “Bastiat and French Liberalism,” “Anarchism in 19th-Century Europe,” and “Anarchism in 19th-Century America” (all new lectures) at IHS’s “Revolutionaries, Reformers, and Radicals: Liberty Emerges” seminar at Bryn Mawr.

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iRad I.3 in Print, iRad I.2 Online

By on July 13, 2013

The third issue (Spring 2013) of The Industrial Radical will be back from the printers and on its way to subscribers shortly, featuring articles by Less Antman, Jason Lee Byas, Kevin Carson, Nathan Goodman, Anthony Gregory, Trevor Hultner, Charles Johnson, Joshua Katz, Thomas L. Knapp, Abby Martin, Chad Nelson, Sheldon Richman, Jeremy Weiland, and your humble correspondent, on topics ranging from NSA surveillance and whistleblowing, the Turkish revolt, the Boston lockdown, the Keystone XL pipeline, intellectual property, and the futility of gun control in an age of 3-D printing, to compulsory schooling, American militarism, conscription, worker exploitation, property rights, prison ethics, rape culture, the pros and cons of communism, and the dubious legacy of Margaret Thatcher.

The Industrial Radical I.3 (Spring 2013)

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