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How Western Civilization could collapse Cyclical models of history are always popular. Eye Makeup Used To Protect Children Can Poison Them Instead This is something that should be on the short list of things to get rid of that will improve life for everyone. The deep imagery of coal mining

The Long View: Island of the Day Before

The accurate measurement of longitude was a driving force of much of science during the Age of Exploration. A hell of a lot of good research came out of nations competing to do this faster and better, in search of filthy lucre. This is one of the foundational elements of

The Long View 2004-11-18: You Can't Make This Stuff Up, But People Do Anyway

Unfortunately, Bush Derangement Syndrome has proven to be a permanent feature of American politics since 2004, with the object changing every so often. You Can't Make This Stuff Up, But People Do Anyway The expression "Bush Derangement Syndrome" seems to have been coined by Charles Krauthammer

The Long View: Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years

Prior to 1500, the idea that Northwestern Europe and its disapora would come to dominate the world would have seemed pretty strange. One can make a case that this is a temporary state of affairs. All of the ancient seats of civilization were in other places, and had been for

The Long View 2004-11-04: Anti-Tet

The comparison John Reilly makes here[via Robert Kaplan] between Iraq and India is a particularly interesting one. You do not usually hear of the two countries compared in any meaningful way, but the distinction here is the differing responses of each people to extended foreign occupation. Violent uprisings were

The Long View: Beyond the End Times: The Rest of the Greatest Story Ever Told

The minutiae of eschatology matter quite a bit to many people. This book review was my introduction to preterism, the claim that all of the events prophesied in the New Testament have already happened. Like John, I don't think this really fits into a systematic Christian theology, but

The Long View: C. S. Lewis: An Alternative Obituary

C. S. Lewis is now famous for having written the Chronicles of Narnia and a number of popular works of Christian apologetics, but as a young man he was involved in some dubious circles. This is an alternative account of his life had he not decided to seek the light.