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The Long View 2003-03-12: Regime Changes

This post of John's reminds me of one of my favorite stories about Jerry Pournelle, as related by Steve Sailer: Jerry should know because back in 1967, Jerry, Stefan Possony, and then-Crown Prince in Exile Leka (or Laika) organized an invasion of Albania by exiles to overthrow Communist

The Long View 2003-03-07: Speak Softly

No comment. Speak Softly Remember the old joke that you know things are really bad when Mr. Rogers is on television giving directions to evacuate the city? Sadly, Mr. Rogers has recently left us, but President Bush's demeanor at his press conference on Thursday, March 6, was nearly

The Long View 2003-03-06: Four Fronts

John made something of an off-hand comment at the end of this entry about the build-up to the Iraq War, Baron Evola I think there is something to this. There is a segment of the Right in the United States that has been emboldened by the debacle in Iraq, and

The Long View: After the Third Age

Tradition isn't all bad. After all, it is just a kind of historically informed neo-Platonism. However, it does have some sketchy friends. Tradition is one of the elements that makes up esoteric fascism, the New Age occult revival of actual fascism. One nonetheless cannot equate esoteric fascism with

The Long View: Revolt Against the Modern World

Tradition [in the René Guénon sense] isn't really something that I am in favor of. However, reading John's synopsis of Revolt Against the Modern World, I cannot help but be struck by how many concepts he shares in common with many of my favorite writers. For

The Long View: The Hermetic Tradition

The Long View: The Hermetic Tradition

Scott Alexander at SlateStarCodex wonders how someone as bright and generally capable as Isaac Newton could be interested in anything as bizarre as alchemy. I wonder whether he and his readers see alchemy just as defective chemistry, or a spiritual practice and rite of initiation. I suspect the former, but

The Long View 2003-02-27: What Would Jesus Do?

This is one of the posts I turned to often when I was considering converting to Catholicism. My own reading of the Gospels matched up entirely with John's description here: Jesus of Nazareth said some astonishing things, even at the distance of 2,000 years. I'm