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Benjamin Espen

The Long View: We All Fall Down

The best paragraph in this fascinating book review by John J. Reilly is this: As an aside, we may note that this solidifying of the self into an entity that acts without regard to desire is also the goal of certain esotericists. The adamantine self becomes a "body of

The Long View 2007-01-26: The Dead Hand of the Seventies Flexes but Is Mitigated by Scientific Advances

I have never bothered to closely follow popular science news for two reasons: 1. It is often confused, at best 2. Even when it is well-reported, whatever results are covered tend to be invalidated over time Nothing here strikes me as especially dumb, but I like to wait for the

Dragon and Liberator Book Review

Dragon and Liberator: Dragonback book 6 by Timothy Zahn 368 pages Published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (March 27, 2018) in a set with volumes 4 and 5 ASIN B079N6ZHPG The time has come for Jack and Draycos to fulfill their destiny, or die trying. The K’da/

The Long View 2007-01-24: The State of the Union

This The Long View post is brief, so I will be similarly brief: I still think you could assemble an interesting majority coalition in American politics that was all-in for universal healthcare, moderately skeptical about immigration, and just a little bit anti-free trade. I don’t expect this to happen,

The Long View 2007-01-21: I've Had a Really Bad Weekend

I did not have a bad weekend, but John J. Reilly was rather disappointed in the Republican convention in 2007. JJR had some substantial disagreements with the domestic policy of President George W. Bush, leading to this cri de coeur: What a fraud the Republican Revolution was. It was not

Dragon and Judge Book Review

Dragon and Judge: Dragonback book 5 by Timothy Zahn 320 pages Published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (March 27, 2018) in a set with volumes 4 and 6 ASIN B079N6ZHPG Finally, five volumes in, we find out what really happened to Jack’s parents, and who they really

The Long View 2007-01-17: Franco-British What-Ifs; Steyn on Children of Men; Obsolete Doomsday Clock

A Franco-British Union is the kind of alternative history that John J. Reilly loved to post about, except this one was seriously proposed more than once in mundane history. Franco-British What-Ifs; Steyn on Children of Men; Obsolete Doomsday Clock This is not one of the great "What-Ifs" of