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Linkfest 2017-03-03

A Cold War era power plant could save us from ourselves Thorium reactors are an idea that has been around for a long time. We'd try it if we got desperate. Top professional performance through psychopathy Being resistant to the feelings of others can be a good thing,

The Long View 2004-09-17: Millennials; God; Holy Censorship; Rathergate

John was absolutely right here about the relative influence of C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. Lewis is a big deal to British and American Christians, but Freud was a big deal everywhere. Let's use Google ngrams to illustrate: Sigmund Freud compared to C. S. Lewis in American

The Long View 2004-09-15: They Actually Said That

It was only two months after this that Dan Rather announced he would resign from CBS. Unfortunately, no one is likely to paint any frescoes about it. At the end of this post, John engaged in the then novel practice of publicly shaming a company that he felt hadn'

The Long View 2004-09-10: Fraud, Prudence, & Treason

Oh for the controversies of only thirteen years ago. W received political favoritism in his National Guard service? I'll take that over the present. John made a prediction here that became a counterfactual: if Roe v. Wade had been overturned in W's second term, the parties

The Long View 2004-09-08: Death Cult

Here, on the grounds of millenarian movements and apocalyptic expectations, I think John was at his best when describing what Islamic terrorism is. There is a link to esoteric fascism too, the ideology of Tradition. Pray that men such as these don't have their day in the sun.

The Rithmatist Book Review

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson Tor Teen 2013 $17.99; 378 pages ISBN 9780765320322 Ever since a friend recommended Mistborn three years ago, I have been in love with Brandon Sanderson's work. Sanderson's shtick is coming up with really interesting systems of "magic", that

Death Troopers Book Review

Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber LucasBooks, 2009 ISBN: 9780345509628 $7.99; 256 pages A friend recommended this book to me nearly three years ago. I finally picked up a copy, and it was a blast! Oh, the days when you could throw iconic characters into any situation you wanted! As