Movie based on the Long Walk
I reviewed the Long Walk two years ago, the fanciful but not entirely fabricated tale of Polish soldiers who walked to India from Sibera. Now a movie is being made based on this tale.
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Last night on Twitter/X I suggested that John J. Reilly may be the prophet of our times. John died in 2012, but his writings offer us useful concepts for understanding our times based on history.
In this 2009 blog post, John shows us what a modern day purge would
The Long View: American Babylon
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus liked to say the first thing about politics is that is not the first thing. Over the course of his life, Fr. Neuhaus was an active player in American politics, but he always tried to keep it in its proper place:
In this understanding, it is
The Long View: How Rome Fell
And now we have John's review/reflection on just how the Western Roman Empire became capable of falling. As John was keenly interested in cyclical theories of history, it should come as no surprise that John's analysis is a combination of decreasing state capacity occurring in
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