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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

The Long View 2008-02-21: Campus Lockdown; Times misfire; Spengler Meets John Brown; Gerson and Providence; Vox Day Blast

John J. Reilly makes the excellent point that as beloved and influential as C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton are, most of their work is between 60 and 100 years old, and the obsessions of the broader culture have changed quite a bit in the intervening decades. Apologetics must

Linkfest 2020-12-04: Protein Folding and the Apocalypse

Labroots: How Detective Geologists are Tracing Illegal Sand I’ve certainly snarked that glass recycling is silly because we aren’t in danger of running out of sand, but intensive sand mining for use in concrete aggregate can certainly have bad consequences. In the Pipeline: What’s Crucial and What

The Long View 2008-02-18: The Menace of the Yutes; Obama's Ontological Deficit; That Republican '70s Show

I rather enjoyed this paragraph of John J. Reilly’s from 2008 which uses the idea “socialize the risk, privatize the profits” without using that phrase. Turning from Senator Obama's ontological deficit to the implosion of the Reagan Coalition, we find the key to the latter in Steyn&