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The Long View 2004-09-24: Jurisdiction, Under God; Niall's Little England; Kerry Defended

I still think John is right that it wouldn't be possible at present for Congress to use it's theoretical authority to define the jurisdiction of the federal courts. In another generation, who knows? Jurisdiction, Under God; Niall's Little England; Kerry Defended I see that

The Long View 2004-09-21: You Can't Make This Stuff Up

I was never able to take Pat Buchanan's critique of the Iraq War seriously because of statements like the one quoted in John's post here. While Buchanan was pretty right about the war overall, I still think the reason Iraq is unstable is that it is

The Long View 2004-09-17: Millennials; God; Holy Censorship; Rathergate

John was absolutely right here about the relative influence of C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. Lewis is a big deal to British and American Christians, but Freud was a big deal everywhere. Let's use Google ngrams to illustrate: Sigmund Freud compared to C. S. Lewis in American

The Long View 2004-09-15: They Actually Said That

It was only two months after this that Dan Rather announced he would resign from CBS. Unfortunately, no one is likely to paint any frescoes about it. At the end of this post, John engaged in the then novel practice of publicly shaming a company that he felt hadn'

The Long View 2004-09-10: Fraud, Prudence, & Treason

Oh for the controversies of only thirteen years ago. W received political favoritism in his National Guard service? I'll take that over the present. John made a prediction here that became a counterfactual: if Roe v. Wade had been overturned in W's second term, the parties

The Long View 2004-09-08: Death Cult

Here, on the grounds of millenarian movements and apocalyptic expectations, I think John was at his best when describing what Islamic terrorism is. There is a link to esoteric fascism too, the ideology of Tradition. Pray that men such as these don't have their day in the sun.

The Long View 2004-09-05: My Enthusiasms Prosper

John's enthusiasm for alternative history is arguably going better than spelling reform. The kind of perfectly pleasant people who have no interest in religion John mentions near the end make me thing of Kipling, who described himself as a Christian God-fearing atheist. My Enthusiasms Prosper Lingva Prismo is