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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2006-09-15: The Benedictine Jihad

Pope Emeritus Benedict later gave a speech in Jordan that is sometimes described as an anti-Regensburg speech, but I honestly think he really believed what he said both times. The Benedictine Jihad Guy Fawkes Day came early in the Muslim world, to judge by these scenes of effigies of

Night Train to Rigel Book Review

Night Train to Rigel Book Review

Night Train to Rigel: Quadrail Book 1 by Timothy Zahn Kindle Edition, 394 pages Published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy; Reprint edition (July 28, 2015) ASIN B00Z8POQDO Night Train to Rigel is a murder mystery set on an interstellar train, mixed with something very much like Cold

Linkfest 2018-07-09

The Good, the Pulp, and the Superversive – Introduction Superversive is a neologism intended to be the contrary of subversive. H. P. at Every Day Should Be Tuesday tries to figure out what the term is really getting at. While there is a small group of authors that like to describe

The Long View 2006-09-13: Animal Rights; Surveys; Der Waldzellspieler

As a Thomist, I am also an essentialist. Essences or forms, εἶδος, distinguish different kinds of things from one another. This idea is so rooted in Western thought that even people who oppose it often act as if they presuppose it to be true. When someone genuinely acts otherwise, it

The Long View 2006-09-11: Memorials; Media Via Islam; Evangelism; Thriller Device

I'm back after a nice vacation. Let's jump back into the Long View re-posting project! This is a reprise of Pope Emeritus Benedict's tour of Bavaria in 2006. The tolerance which we urgently need includes the fear of God -- respect for what others

Another Thrawn: Alliances Excerpt

Another excerpt from Timothy Zahn's new novel Thrawn: Alliances has been released. Taking a final look at the nav display, Anakin pointed the Actis toward the horizon and poured power to the drive— Abruptly, R2-D2 trilled a warning. “What is it?” Anakin said, frowning as he checked

Linkfest 2018-06-25

Confessions of a former immigration hawk Matthew Walter calls himself a former immigration hawk, but what he says here is fairly close to what John Reilly used to say about this. Classless Utopia versus Class Compromise This was quite good. Class is something that Americans are not good at thinking