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Linkfest 2021-07-23

First Things: Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities Ross Douthat surveys the field of American Catholicism and identifies all the major players. You can’t know what’s going on without a list of dramatis personae and their alliances. DarwinCatholic: No, COVID Vaccines Are Not Causing First Trimester Babies to Miscarry

Jungle Jitters by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review

Jungle Jitters by J. Manfred Weichsel [Amazon link] is one of the most horrifying pieces of social commentary I have ever read. Weichsel pulls no punches whatsoever in this cautionary tale of the power of social media. The pseudonymous Emperor Norton recently blogged a three part series on how hobbies

The Long View 2008-08-17: Some Foolish Little Thing in the Caucasus

As John J. Reilly notes here, and in his review of Niall Ferguson’s The Pity of War, while it is important to have a sense of history, you can also be misled if you think that the past will simply be repeated. For example, with China and the United

Book Reviews and the Great Conversation: What Readers Like Versus What Authors Like

I am indebted to The Pulp Archivist for the title of this post, but I see it as an extension of my blog from 2020 What authors like versus what readers like. As someone who really likes adventure books, and really likes to blog about adventure books, there is a

Linkfest 2021-07-09: When Orcs Were Real

Tree of Woe: When Orcs were Real A contrarian view of the interaction between humans and Neanderthals. Danny Vendramini in his book Them and Us: How Neanderthal Predation Created Modern Humans makes some extremely speculative claims that Neanderthals were monsters of myth and legend. As the comments make clear, this

The Long View 2008-08-02: What is Happening in China; what is happening in America

The end of this blog post by John J. Reilly is an extended reflection on where he thought American politics was going. I’d say he guessed right. There are, I know, benighted Libertarians who say that any redistribution of income is illegitimate. For my part, I preach in season

Dark Operator By John Spears Nick Cole and Jason Anspach Book Review

Dark Operator, the first book in the five book series by John “Doc” Spears, Jason Anspach, and Nick Cole [Amazon link] is the most thrilling example of careful planning, diligent preparation, and conscientious execution that I have ever read. And yes, I’m totally serious about that. Doc Spears has