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Message for the Dead Book Review

Message for the Dead: Galaxy's Edge #8 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Kindle Edition, 496 pages Published April 25th 2018 by Galaxy's Edge ASIN B07C33BB7D In a tweet storm last month, I threatened to write an essay about the millennialism of the lighthuggers portrayed in

I have a beautiful dream

My first article published somewhere other than my own website is now up at Ordinary Times: I Have a Beautiful Dream I have a beautiful dream. My dream is that Flagstaff, my hometown, could become more beautiful as it grows. This is likely to seem a little strange to most

The Long View 2006-07-24: Defeat the People; Eurasianism = Bandung

I will note that pretty much nothing came out of any of the 2006 political movements mentioned in this post. Defeat the People; Eurasianism = Bandung The Wicked Spengler at Asia Times reminds us today that the people, united, have often been defeated: Conventional armies can defeat guerrilla forces with broad

The Long View 2006-07-21: Theocracy & Elephants

Footfall is a great book. Not the crowning achievement of The Mote in God's Eye or Inferno, but a hell of a good read. Theocracy & Elephants Theocracy, Theocracy, Theocracy is the title of the keynote piece in the current (August/September) issue of First Things, by the

The Long View: Kingdom Coming

If you need a reminder that political swings are not the end of the world, in any figurative or literal sense, then this book, and the less histrionic American Theocracy should help vaccinate you against future outbreaks. Only twelve years ago, otherwise sane and responsible people were warning that theocracy

The Long View 2006-07-19: The Road to Perdition

I recently read that Tenochtitlán, unlike almost all other pre-modern cities, was a population source instead of a population sink. This was due to a combination of the productivitiy of the floating farms, and a lack of the nasty diseases typical in cultures that have been farming for longer periods

The Long View 2006-07-16: Bulletin Board; World War III; Progressive Realism; Spelling Reform Summer

The bulletin board that John Reilly set up in 2006 did end up being a major feature of his website. It featured lively discussion for a number of years. It was on that board that I first conceived of archiving and restoring John's writings after his death, since