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The Long View 2009-01-04: Valkyrie, Runciman 2012

John J. Reilly’s brief comments on the movie Valkyrie in 2009 are a reminder that Tom Cruise may be one of the most successful actors of our era. Valkyrie, Runciman, 2012 Yesterday, I went to see the new film Valkyrie [changed to IMDB link BIE], directed by Bryan Singer.

The Long View: Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life by Joseph Ratzinger

When I wrap up a year’s worth of blog posts from John J. Reilly, I go back and collect any stray essays or reviews that I missed from that year. This is a masterpiece of John’s, an extended reflection on a book written by Joseph Ratzinger before he

The Long View 2009-01-01: Count Your Blessings

It might not be obvious, thirteen years later, but this was John J. Reilly’s deadpan satire of how 2009 could have been worse. Count Your Blessings For many people, the television images this morning of the continuing sack of the Green Zone brought a sense of closure, if not

The Long View 2008-12-29: Happy New Year

John J. Reilly was a big proponent of public order, or what post-liberals right now term the common good. John was in favor of universal healthcare because he deemed it a public good, rather than a right. Building, and perhaps more importantly, maintaining all the vast infrastructure of manufacturing and

The Long View: The Beginning of Wisdom

John J. Reilly had quite a few thoughts about constitutional law. It should come as no surprise that he had some thoughts on Roe v. Wade. In this essay from 2000, John makes an argument very much like that articulated by Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement, that both the

The Long View 2008-12-16: Boxing Day

John J. Reilly links to a 2009 article by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus that has this tidbit in it: “some 45 percent of respondents in the Citizens Participation Survey who reported participating in a national protest did so because of abortion..." As best I can tell, the study that

The Long View 2008-12-21: Solstice Alternatives

The fictional book acknowledgment that John J. Reilly writes here is perfect. Solstice Alternatives The only merit of today is its brevity. The sun disappeared at some forgotten point last week. In the time since, the clinically depressive skies have produced every known water-based form of precipitation, all of which