Rory MacQueenAmerica’s Iliad: A Review of Shelby Foote’s Civil War: A NarrativeAt Shiloh National Military Park, situated on the banks of the Tennessee River just ten miles north of the Mississippi border, there lies…Jul 6Jul 6
Rory MacQueenHuman, all too Human: A Review of Obama’s Promised LandYou have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say…Jul 26, 2021Jul 26, 2021
Rory MacQueenThe Danger with NumbersOnce when I was working as an engineer at a large software company, my team received a report that a serious bug had been discovered in a…Nov 30, 2020Nov 30, 2020
Rory MacQueenA New 9/11? Let’s not make the same mistakes: Thoughts on COVID-19 and our response as a societyDisclaimer: I am immensely privileged. Neither the Coronavirus itself, nor the economic fallout that is fast approaching are likely to…Apr 6, 20201Apr 6, 20201
Rory MacQueenBrexit Part IVb) NegotiationsThe Article 50 bill took a couple more months to wriggle its way through a maze of legislative bureaucracy before finally coming into…Feb 17, 2020Feb 17, 2020
Rory MacQueenBrexit Part IVa) A Constitutional CrisisWhen Britain awoke on June 26th, 2016 to find that the Leave campaign had won, perhaps no one was more surprised than Leave voters…Feb 1, 2020Feb 1, 2020
Rory MacQueenBrexit Part III, The Case for RemainingOn October 27th, 1806, French troops under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte entered Berlin shortly after defeating the Prussian armies at…Dec 10, 2019Dec 10, 2019
Rory MacQueenBrexit: Part II, The Case for LeavingBritain has long had a frigid relationship with Europe, going back centuries before Walter Hallstein, a former lieutenant in Hitler’s…Oct 15, 2019Oct 15, 2019
Rory MacQueenBrexit: Part I, The Origins“Well son, it all started with a bacon sandwich.” Avid redditors will recognize this line as the meme du jour on the /r/ukpolitics…Oct 14, 2019Oct 14, 2019
Rory MacQueenWhy We Should Abolish the Death Penalty32 of the 50 states in the US still accept the death penalty as legal sentence for certain criminal offenses. Despite overwhelming evidence…Aug 27, 20151Aug 27, 20151
