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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2007-04-23: Catholicism & Open Borders; Tolkein & Higher Loyalties

John J. Reilly wasn’t much amused by the trend toward de facto open borders in American Catholic thinking. It did not turn out to be true that this trend was directly imported into the American church by business interests. I suspect that for many people who argue this way,

Uncrowned release scheduled and an interview with Will Wight

Volume seven of Will Wight’s Cradle series, Uncrowned, is coming out in the US September 26th. I wanted to take this opportunity to bring up an interview that Will did with A. C. Cobble in May this year, where Will explained how Eastern fantasy inspired the Cradle series. I

Marriage and Divorce in the United States: A Trend

I’ve been meaning to start up a new series of posts that is mostly data-driven, showcasing some interesting bit of information that I’ve come across. Finding a really interesting chart, and then tracking down the data behind it is as good an excuse as any. Courtesy of H.

The Long View: Lucifer's Court

This is John J. Reilly’s masterful summary of not only esoteric fascism, but of the curious historical phenomenon of the Albigensians. John wraps up everything he wrote over a number of years on the subject into a cohesive whole. Lucifer’s Court: A Heretic’s Journey in Search of

The Long View: The Master Plan

The Ahnererbe was a peculiar institution in the Third Reich. It had an independent source of revenue in the form of a bicycle reflector patent, which meant that while some of its activities were favored and supported, others weren’t, but it could continue regardless. Its research was a weird

The Long View: Himmler's Crusade

Himmler’s Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race By Christopher Hale John Wiley & Sons, 2003 422 Pages, US$27.95 ISBN 0-471-26292-7 Remarkable stories clustered around the Schäfer Expedition to Tibet of 1938-1939. The project was only one of several German expeditions to

The Long View 2007-04-20: Gonzales, Bering Tunnel, Mass Murder Today

John J. Reilly’s idea that managing demographics is a pre-constitutional power of government is one my favorites. Gonzales, Bering Tunnel, Mass Murder Today Regarding Gonzales v. Carhart, the United States Supreme Court decision upholding the federal law banning partial-birth abortion, the first thing to note is that the law