CrossFit 2014-03-04
Diane
21-15-9
* Deadlift [165#]
* Kipping handstand pushups [abmat]
Time 11:50
Benjamin Espen
The Long View: The Ecstasy Club
Anyone who studies millennial movements also ends up studying cults, which figure heavily in any study of how the end of the world intrudes upon normal life. In this review for Culture Wars, John ties in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test [Amazon link] as well as Robert
The Long View: Spymaster The Real-Life Karla, His Moles, and the East German Secret Police
Another old review, written when John was reviews editor of Culture Wars magazine. John decided to part ways with Culture Wars, for reasons he explains here. A fascinating look at espionage and the Cold War, overlapping slightly with my own book review on American Spies.
Spymaster: The Real-Life Karla, His
The Long View: Hitler's Willing Executioners
John linked to this early book review in his blog post about Goldhagen's slander of Pope Pius XII. John clearly changed his mind about the quality of Goldhagen's work in between the two. John does note in his earlier work that Goldhagen was given to reading
The Long View: Constitution of the Ecumenical Empire
John was very interested in the form the future might take. He wrote a book that was his attempt to limn the future by means of a program he wrote in BASIC and the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee. Like myself, John felt that the idea of cycles
The Long View: In Search of a Usable Apocalypse
John never thought much of the increasingly popular zombie apocalypse. He did do a pretty favorable review of World War Z, but he regarded zombies are mere meat puppets. Nonetheless, John was a scholar of the apocalyptic, a subject has mostly become a matter of folk religion in America. Recently,
The Long View: After Darwin
One of John's best quotes is this:
In 1914, when the century began to manifest its characteristic features, the guiding spirits of the time were Freud and Marx and Darwin and Einstein. In 1989, when in a political sense the 20th century was already over, the guiding spirits