I gave a talk to the Millennium Conference in October which can be seen here: And hopefully it will be published in the next few months!
This really is the best journalism about Somali piracy I have read. It is immensely sympathetic to the ordinary crewmen, many often belonging to the global South, who are the victims of the pi...
10 February 2015 Everything anticipated our entry into what I can only call security seas. There are ships that do not send signals: they turn out to be warships of a sort, small, compact, going ...
https://thegamming.org/2015/03/01/about-today-off-the-coast-of-djibouti-at-sunset/
Just check out this incredibly fabulous painting of Hayreddin Barbarossa and Sinan Reis, 16th century pirates extraordinaire… (thanks Orit).
https://thegamming.org/2014/11/27/the-pirate-republics-of-north-africa/
They are EVERYWHERE! Here is Michael Dirda writing about campy pirates: Many are also distinctly camp. The first pirate most of us encounter is Captain Hook, who, as played by Cyril Ritchard ...
Pirate Utopias is a strange little book – at once a bit disappointing and a portal to further discovery. The concept behind it is fabulous enough (about which more below) and the blurbs on th...
There is a kind of romance around piracy. It is the romance of anti-authority figures and of a life lived not just in the margins but outside the boundaries. Just think about the masses of n...
https://thegamming.org/2014/04/18/piracy-and-counter-piracy/