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Expedition to Eden by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review

Expedition to Eden [Amazon link] is book of fantastic adventure that also shines a light on a fascinating little bit of American history: the escape of John Surratt. While of course also talking about fallen angels, Nephilim, and the Papal Zouaves. John Surratt was the son of Mary Surratt, the

White Winter by D. J. Bodden Book Review

The Balance is everything. It is what enables vampires and werewolves and far stranger things to co-exist with ordinary people, after a fashion. But after Jonas thwarts an attempt by the Order to take control of the Agency, the supernatural law enforcement that maintains the Balance, it becomes clear that

The Long View 2007-07-11: Let's Pick on First Things

Under editor Rusty Reno, First Things has posted a slate of articles recently about the post-liberal future, which in some ways could be seen as a change from the pro-democracy stance First Things took under Father Neuhaus. However, there was the famous End of Democracy issue in 1996 that caused

A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes Book Review

With my re-posting of John J. Reilly’s commentary on Summorum Pontificum yesterday, it seemed like a good time to review this book I read a couple of years ago. Evelyn Waugh is one of the most famous, perhaps the most famous English novelist of the twentieth century. Brideshead is

The Long View 2007-07-07: Summorum Pontificum

Whether Summorum Pontificum actually heralds the beginning of the Second Religiousness is, not clear, at present, but at the very least the SSPX has improved its status within the Catholic Church in the last decade. Summorum Pontificum Today is the official publication date of a document and cover letter from

Gideon Ira: Knight of the Blood Cross: Deus Vult Wastelanders Book 1 Review

Gideon Ira reminds me of Solomon Kane, if he had a repeating firearm and power armor. This assessment of Solomon could easily be written of Gideon: A hunger in his soul drove him on and on, and urge to right all wrongs, protect all weaker things, avenge all crimes against

The Long View 2007-06-29: Bush Saved; Roman Show Trials; The New Deal and Morale; Libertarian Military Premises; July 7

This blog post by John J. Reilly has an instructive analysis of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and why it worked. Specifically, John argues that it worked even though it failed by the metrics used by both Left and Right in the United States today: GDP growth and unemployment. The