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The Long View 2008-12-09: Legitimacy & World Government; Economics & Kant's Republican Devils; Demographic Plan B; When Revivals Succeed

Cyclical theories of history for the most part have a universal state forming in the last quarter of the 21st century. That’s another two generations from now. If things happen like they happened before, a lot of craziness is still ahead of us. Legitimacy & World Government; Economics &

The Long View 2008-07-27: Obama in Berlin

I’ve been enjoying vacation for a couple of weeks and thus the blog has been quiet, but let’s kick it back off again with The Long View from John J. Reilly. The occasion of then Senator Barack Obama speaking to an audience in Berlin gave John J. Reilly

Linkfest 2020-10-16: Castle of Otranto Edition

Linkfest 2020-10-16: Castle of Otranto Edition

The Gothic in Sword & Sorcery This is a nice overview of Gothic novels and how they have influenced what we now call fantasy. Gothic novels were an incredibly broad group, containing books in a range from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (Amazon link) [the progenitor of the woman with

The Long View 2009-01-09: Hillary Taking Names; Stratfor is Optimistic; The Union of the West

John J. Reilly speculates here about a Holy Roman Empire style arrangement for world government: not a state, but a system of dispensing justice. Such a system would preserve the genuine benefits of international cooperation, but avoid directly ruling the various states within in it. Hillary Taking Names; Stratfor is

The Long View 2007-07-04: The Declaration of Independence & The Imperial Contract

This is one of the rare blog posts of the Long View that gets into something more interesting than just the controversies of the day. If you were to do a network analysis [which I have considered doing] of John’s internal hyperlinks, the essays and reviews he cites here

The Long View: God's Plan for America

It is never prudent to completely dismiss the suggestion that the purpose of your life to serve as a warning to others. It may not be a leading hypothesis, but it is a possible one. That being said, this essay contains John J. Reilly’s reflections on how Christians ought

The Long View 2006-10-23: American Nadir; Empire; Art; Indult; Thanatophobia

I would concur with John Reilly here that a sung Mass, whether High or Low, is a remarkable experience. There are a variety of sung settings for the Mass, in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms, by well-known composers. It is unfortunately difficult to find one in practice. I had