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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2008-02-25: Spenglers False & True

John J. Reilly mentions here his extended review of Amaury De Riencourt’s The Coming Caesars. An updated version of the book came out in 2013, but the original was published in 1957. Like John, I am struck by de Riencourt’s outsider’s assessment of America. Spenglers False &

Linkfest 2020-12-11: Eggnog, Risk Tolerance, and Hinges

The HobbitHouse Ilustrated Glossary of Woodworking terms Good Thomist that I am, I find a clear set of terms marvelous for clear thinking Dietrich Vollrath: When did productivity growth slow down? Total factor productivity, and the lack of growth thereof, is a common theme on With Both Hands. “O Magnum

Unmasked: Song of Karma Book 2 by Ben Cheah

Unmasked: Song of Karma book 2 [Silver Empire affiliate link] ended up being a very 2020 book. While the events of this book are simply the inevitable consequences of everything that was setup in Hollow City, it feels very much like today with a highly politicized trial of a police

The Long View 2008-02-23: The Transnational Right; Hillary Needs Her Own Scandal; McCain Could Have Avoided One

This 2008 preview of the policies of Viktor Orbán in The Nation seems on point. The tone of the coverage certainly hasn’t changed. Also, looking back at John J. Reilly’s review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone, which he links here, I find I wrote this in the

Larry Niven on the Implied Contract Writers have with Readers

Via Stephen Herreid, I saw this post from the Writers of the Future, a long-standing program that seeks to identify and promote new science fiction and fantasy authors. WofF has lots of judges, and I’m sure that not all of them would agree with Larry here, but this is

Fenton Wood's Yankee Republic Coming in Paperback

Author Fenton Wood is currently running a Kickstarter to bring his Yankee Republic series to paperback. I’ve reviewed Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves and Five Million Watts, and I really need to publish my thoughts on the other volumes in the series. The Yankee Republic is a favorite of

Penny Dreadfuls

So despite what I just said, I am going to look to something G. K. Chesterton wrote almost 120 years ago, because it is still true. And while I appreciate JD Cowan’s analysis of what went wrong in popular culture in the last twenty years, in another sense very