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The Long View 2006-03-28: Social War; 8 x 8 is 64

John Reilly suggests here that the modern transition to Empire will be less grim than the Roman one, because modernity really is more humane than antiquity. I hope he's right. Social War; 8 x 8 is 64 Paul McCartney turns 64 on June 18, according to AARP Magazine,

The Long View 2006-03-25: A Barrage of Trial Balloons

In an aside on Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party, John Reilly casually mentions that the predecessor to the National Organization for Women was primarily funded by Republican industrialists, and the New Deal was conspicuously pro-natalist. Each one of these political movements considered itself feminist. Which

The Long View 2006-03-21: Villainous VP; Stargate Nostalgia; Holy Schlock; Capitalism & Mechanism

With the recent rise in popularity of Communism on the American Catholic Left, John's musing on what makes a good businessman is apropos. A note about capitalism, the moral import of which is widely misunderstood. Capitalism is not the ideology of greed; quite the opposite. It is a

The Long View 2006-03-19: Iraq after Three Years; Life's Solution; Reading Habits

Three years later, John was honest enough to find a rather embarrassing prediction he had made about the course of the Iraq war. With the benefit of hindsight, I've found a few more, but the point of that exercise here is to remind us how easily we can

The Long View: The Gray Havens

The Gray Havens Table of Contents An Explanation A Disclaimer (1) The Downfall of Rivendell (2) Weathertop (3) Bree (4) The Old Forest (5) Buckland (6) The Conquered Shire (7) The Prefect of Bag End (8) North & West (9) The Tower Hills (10) The End of the World An

Sword of the Legion: Galaxy's Edge #5 Book Review

Sword of the Legion: Galaxy's Edge #5 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Kindle Edition, 332 pages Published October 25th 2017 by Galaxy's Edge ASIN B0764948W1 I keep being surprised by Cole and Anspach. I have said that before, but I'm going to keep

The Long View 2006-03-14: Spengler, The Darwin Awards, and a Secularist Manifesto

The Hurt Locker Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes In general, I think Goldman usually had better arguments than Reilly, but for this specific instance, Goldman's argument that the US should hire foreign mercenaries instead of trying to fill the ranks at home,