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The Long View: Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds

Textual analysis and criticism of religious texts was a real innovation in the mid-nineteenth century. However, historical criticism of the Bible and the Talmud exhibits the amusing spectacle, as work has slowly progressed, of converging on something very much like the traditional account. Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible

The Long View: Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric

In case anyone needs help with the terminology of millennial studies, I have a glossary in my lecture notes. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric by Stephen D. O'Leary Oxford University Press, 1994 314 Pages, US$19.95 ISBN 0-19-512125-2 The study of millennialism did not

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise Book Review

The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Dario Fernandez-Morera ISI Press 2016 $29.95; 358 pages ISBN 978161017095 It has been quite a while since I've read a proper work of non-fiction in book form. I tend to get all of my non-fiction reading as journal articles, blogs

Linkfest 2017-03-10

Why the campus protests at Middlebury matter C. C. Pecknold argues the position I took last week: the existing political coalitions in the US are breaking up. The four fallacies of warfare, according to Donald Trump’s new national security advisor John J. Reilly used to argue for #4 on

Linkfest 2017-02-24

Undocumented Irrigation Damn. Steve Sailer went and wrote something about SlateStarCodex's Cost Disease post that covers pretty much everything I wanted to write. The Meaning of Milo Ross Douthat has a pertinent reflection on how Milo fits into post-religious social conservatism. Ross also predicts Milo will make a

LinkFest 2017-01-27

Who the hell is Jeff? A damn good question. [With a damn good answer] Days of Rage A great book review/historical retrospective on 60s radicalism. I think this is an interesting companion to my post on Right-Wing Terrorism in America. I am a bit more sanguine about the possibility

The Long View 2004-07-26: Spies & Pigeons, Catholic Tradition, Catholic Muslims, Pre-Fab Politics

Ordinarily, I would trust John's judgment on a matter of legal interpretation, but I do wonder whether his opinion on the Valerie Plame affair was unbiased. We don't have a legal decision to look back on, since the courts declined to take up the charge, although