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A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes Book Review

With my re-posting of John J. Reilly’s commentary on Summorum Pontificum yesterday, it seemed like a good time to review this book I read a couple of years ago. Evelyn Waugh is one of the most famous, perhaps the most famous English novelist of the twentieth century. Brideshead is

The Long View 2007-07-07: Summorum Pontificum

Whether Summorum Pontificum actually heralds the beginning of the Second Religiousness is, not clear, at present, but at the very least the SSPX has improved its status within the Catholic Church in the last decade. Summorum Pontificum Today is the official publication date of a document and cover letter from

Someone is Aiming for You and Other Adventures by JD Cowan Book Review

In a bleak, crime-ridden city, masked vigilantes prowl the streets, searching for the source of a corruption far darker and fouler than even the jaded citizens of Summerside can imagine. When I picked up a review copy of JD Cowan’s Someone is Aiming for You [Amazon link], I was

The Long View: Bounding Power: Republican Theory from the Polis to the Global Village By Daniel H. Deudney

It is fascinating to return to this book review, written in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. At the time, it seemed more plausible that non-state entities might permanently destabilize the security environment, but in 2020 this has just become the new normal. And while I do find some value

The Long View 2007-07-04: The Declaration of Independence & The Imperial Contract

This is one of the rare blog posts of the Long View that gets into something more interesting than just the controversies of the day. If you were to do a network analysis [which I have considered doing] of John’s internal hyperlinks, the essays and reviews he cites here

Gideon Ira: Knight of the Blood Cross: Deus Vult Wastelanders Book 1 Review

Gideon Ira reminds me of Solomon Kane, if he had a repeating firearm and power armor. This assessment of Solomon could easily be written of Gideon: A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, and urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, avenge all crimes against

Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn Book Review

Thrawn: Treason [Amazon link] is very much the culmination of Timothy Zahn’s Grand Admiral Thrawn. And also, in a sense, the culmination of all his work. Here, we get to see the Grand Admiral at his best: elusive, brilliant, enigmatic. Victorious against all comers [perhaps]. If you want to