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Inside Islam Book Review

Another book review that I inadvertently disappeared during site maintenance. Inside Islam A Guide for Catholics 100 Questions and Answers By Daniel Ali & Robert Spencer Ascension Press 2003 179 Pages; US$11.99 ISBN 9780965922852 As the title notes, this book has an intended audience. This book is apologetic

Islam and the Jews Book Review

Islam and the Jews Book Review

Another book review that inadvertently disappeared during a site reorganization. Al-Azhar UniversityIslam and the Jews: The Unfinished Battle by Mark A. Gabriel ISBN 9780884199564; $13.99 Mark Gabriel is not the author's original name. He has not chosen to reveal his original name, both because of possible repercussions

The Long View: Earthly Powers

Some of John's central ideas about the Papacy are contained herein. The 18th and 19th centuries were a time of rampant nationalism in Europe, and the Pope was the head of the last institution that could effectively resist the nation-state. As the latter half of the nineteenth century

The Long View: Werwolf!

Werwolf wasn't the only partisan organization organized in post-WWII Germany. However, Werwolf was probably the best known. Here, John imagines what might have been if the remaining Nazis in 1945 hadn't been too otherwordly to be effective. Werwolf! The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement,

The Long View: Warriors of God

It is hard to remember now, but Palestine was a sleepy backwater in the domains of the Romans, and then the Ottomans for a very long time. It was not locally ruled any time in the previous twenty centuries except for the longer Hasmonean Dynasty and the very brief Bar

The Long View: Tragedy and Hope

The Magistra likes to watch period dramas on Netflix. This is a work of the same genre, although Quigley probably didn't know he was writing one at the time. This book is a fossil from that brief and peaceful period in the 1960s before the big cultural upheavals

The Last Superstition Book Review

The Last Superstition Book Review

This book review was accidentally taken down in a site update. This is the most popular book review I have ever written, so it seems worthwhile to revisit. I've long been a fan of Ed Feser, and I recommend his work. The tone of The Last Superstition has