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The Long View 2007-02-14: Happy Non-Existence; Who Lost Britain; AH Mag; The Longer Boom; Carl Sagan; God & Logos

I would have definitely read this magazine. Happy Non-Existence; Who Lost Britain; AH Mag; The Longer Boom; Carl Sagan; God & Logos This study may have implications as unnerving as a trapdoor, if you think about it: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is the worst country in the industrialized world in

Radioactive Evolution Book Review

Radioactive Evolution: A Dystopian, Post-Apocalyptic Adventure by Richard Hummel Hummel Books (November 15, 2018) ASIN B07KLMTZBW I received a complimentary review copy of this book from bookpublicityservices.com Richard Hummel’s Radioactive Evolution is now the third or fourth variant [depending on what counts] on the relatively new LitRPG category

The Long View 2007-02-09: Steyn on D'Souza; Hillary v. Rudolph; Climate Crimes; Mystery History

It is a real pity that John J. Reilly didn’t live long enough to see President Trump. As a longtime Jersey resident, I’m sure he would have had opinions. Here is a funny bit on Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton: My own suspicion is that Senator Clinton'

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic Book Review

Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic by Matt McCarthy, MD Avery (May 21, 2019) ISBN 0735217505 I received a free copy of this book through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. Superbugs is a fascinating book, and I’m glad I had the chance to review it. This book is

The Long View 2007-02-07: Islamic Reformation; Pro-Natalist Irony; Kakutani on D'Souza

A less relaxed blogger might explain in angry detail that reproduction is only the central circle in the Ven diagram of the human model of marriage. The next layer is regulation of the co-existence of men and women, the next layer is the care of the elderly, and the last

The Long View: The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village

C. S. Lewis famously made much the same argument in the Abolition of Man that McFaul makes here: the ethical systems of most world religions are strikingly similar, no matter how incompatible their ultimate claims about reality are. An interesting aside here is if you look at the ethnographic literature,

Clock's Watch Book Review

Clock’s Watch by Michael Reyes, cover art by MV, interior art by Sean Bova, Jay Campbell, and MV Mycelium Press (January 5, 2018) I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into here, as this was a sale that popped up on Twitter. It turns out, I liked