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The Long View 2008-07-09: The Truman Show

This blog post by John J. Reilly amounts to a mini-review of David McCullough’s biography of Truman [Amazon link], which John mentioned in another post shortly before this one. I find John’s thoughts on Truman’s economic policies interesting: I don’t want to suggest that higher taxes

The Long View 2008-07-02: The Happy Anarchist; Respectable Demography; The Second Coming of Schundler

A fascinating aside on machine politics in the early twenty-first century: Readers may be surprised to hear that there is still a “Democratic Machine” in Jersey City, or indeed anywhere. In the classic sense of the term, there isn't. Certainly it is not a mass organization, commanding the

Linkfest 2021-06-04: Gimme that Old School Religion

Yesterday I went down a rabbithole of a very different kind of #OSR, old school religion, looking at the inchoate shaping of D&D by Christianity at the beginning though Clerics in Fantasy Literature and a followup The Church in D&D Wasteland & Sky: Selective Memory ~ An

The Church in D&D

After this morning’s post on Clerics in Fantastic Literature, I said that I wanted to follow up on the implied Church in Dungeons and Dragons. This will of course be interpretive and subjective, but I think there is something really interesting here. In particular, I think once you examine

Clerics in Fantastic Literature

Last evening after work, I was delving into the Grognardia blog, and I found this post on The Implicit Christianity of Early Gaming from 2008. James Maliszewski makes this startling [to me] claim right at the beginning: One of the many interesting ways that Dungeons & Dragons differs from its

Overlook by Jon Mollison on Sale

Overlook by Jon Mollison is on sale on Amazon for $0.99 USD. I appreciate how Silver Empire’s Heroes Unleashed series are all so different. I think of this one as a super-powered game of cat and mouse, and it is a well done battle of wits with just

Nethereal by Brian Niemeier Book Review

Nethereal by Brian Niemeier [Amazon link] is an imaginative and densely written trip straight to Hell. And not in any metaphorical manner whatsoever. The pacing of Nethereal is relentless. New characters, new places, new intrigues are introduced without any explanation whatsoever. This is the kind of book I feel like