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The Long View 2007-08-30: Anarchy! Orthography! Liturgy!

A bit of a return to current events commentary here. An item of interest is the response of the Patriarch of Moscow commenting on the motu proprio of Benedict XVI allowing greater freedom to celebrate the Latin mass. If you think the Second Vatican Council roiled Catholicism, you should see

The Long View: In the Wake of the Plague

There is a lot of chaos and recrimination now that lots of prominent forecasts of COVID-19 have been publicly revised. However, you shouldn’t fret too much if people can’t get the impact of a major infectious disease correct in the moment; it is entirely possible to screw it

The Long View 2007-08-24: The Sublimity of Bush; Health Care Misdirection; Immigration & Bubbles

I read a lot of David Warren, because John read him. Much like John, David later came to regret some of his enthusiasm for the Iraq War, and retreated to a life of prayer and contemplation, much like Benedict XVI. Warren’s quote here reminds me of my youth, when

Veteran commenter Subforum rejoins the fray

Subforum posts this on the August 11th, 2007 The Long View blog: *Even when no litigable entitlement was at issue, the Great Society fostered the development of the acrimonious niche-politics that we call multiculturalism. The niches by their nature could not recognize a common good; the closest they could come

The Long View 2007-08-20: God's Politics

This is an amazing line: When you see an argument developing a vector as surprising as the vector this argument manifests, you know that it is under the gravitational influence of some ideological dark body. Also: Yes, the US has a "strong constitutional structure." In part, that is

The Long View 2007-08-11: The Lethal Insistence

John J. Reilly shifted his blog posts at the end of July 2007 away from commenting on current events, which in retrospect isn’t usually very interesting, and started doing more short reflections based what was happening. I think the improvement in his posts at this distance in time is

The Long View 2007-08-04: “What amazing ruins we are going to leave.”

John J. Reilly echoes [foreshadows?] here what the new urban design movement has been saying on Twitter: I do reflect on the fact that it was the pride of earlier bridge builders that there work was overdesigned. Actually, the first example I thought of in this connection was the Brooklyn