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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2007-02-07: Islamic Reformation; Pro-Natalist Irony; Kakutani on D'Souza

A less relaxed blogger might explain in angry detail that reproduction is only the central circle in the Ven diagram of the human model of marriage. The next layer is regulation of the co-existence of men and women, the next layer is the care of the elderly, and the last

The Long View: The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village

C. S. Lewis famously made much the same argument in the Abolition of Man that McFaul makes here: the ethical systems of most world religions are strikingly similar, no matter how incompatible their ultimate claims about reality are. An interesting aside here is if you look at the ethnographic literature,

Clock's Watch Book Review

Clock’s Watch by Michael Reyes, cover art by MV, interior art by Sean Bova, Jay Campbell, and MV Mycelium Press (January 5, 2018) I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into here, as this was a sale that popped up on Twitter. It turns out, I liked

The Long View 2007-02-04: Glitter & Doom

This Weimar era art exhibition John J. Reilly describes here sounds fascinating. I found a few examples from the three artists John said were most prominent in the show: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz. Their work is fascinating, but I can see why the Weimar era couldn’t

The Long View 2007-02-02: Groundhog's Day

Homo floresensis is definitely a new species. Time flies with ancient DNA. Groundhog's Day The case against homo floresensis is not quite closed, if this report is to be believed: The tiny woman dubbed the Hobbit who lived 18,000 years ago on a remote Indonesian island deserves

Hollow City Book Review

Hollow City: Song of Karma book 1 by Cheah Kit Sun Published by Silver Empire (2019) Hollow City is the second book in the Heroes Unleashed universe I have reviewed. I picked up this copy on my own, so you can’t blame the author for my opinions. My opinion

The Long View 2007-01-27: The Real Enemy; Guardian Robots; The Constant of Tolerable Terror

Two of the links John J. Reilly put in this post are really good: A Culture Worth Dying For The fact is that if democracy meant nothing else than that blasphemy could be freely circulated, or that pornography was always available at the touch of a button, or that Michael