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The Long View: An Angel Directs the Storm

This is a fine example of John's best work. In retrospect, President George W. Bush did some crazy things, but his critics were often even crazier. An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion & American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris Co Ltd., 2004 200 Pages, US$

The Long View: American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

There was a minor panic over theocracy in the United States during the George W. Bush presidency. We'll get to Damon Linker's book on the subject soon, but he was far from the only one to perceive the national mood had shifted from the post-Cold War

The Long View 2006-03-28: Social War; 8 x 8 is 64

John Reilly suggests here that the modern transition to Empire will be less grim than the Roman one, because modernity really is more humane than antiquity. I hope he's right. Social War; 8 x 8 is 64 Paul McCartney turns 64 on June 18, according to AARP Magazine,

The Long View 2006-03-25: A Barrage of Trial Balloons

In an aside on Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam's Grand New Party, John Reilly casually mentions that the predecessor to the National Organization for Women was primarily funded by Republican industrialists, and the New Deal was conspicuously pro-natalist. Each one of these political movements considered itself feminist. Which

The Long View 2006-03-21: Villainous VP; Stargate Nostalgia; Holy Schlock; Capitalism & Mechanism

With the recent rise in popularity of Communism on the American Catholic Left, John's musing on what makes a good businessman is apropos. A note about capitalism, the moral import of which is widely misunderstood. Capitalism is not the ideology of greed; quite the opposite. It is a

The Long View 2006-03-19: Iraq after Three Years; Life's Solution; Reading Habits

Three years later, John was honest enough to find a rather embarrassing prediction he had made about the course of the Iraq war. With the benefit of hindsight, I've found a few more, but the point of that exercise here is to remind us how easily we can

The Long View: The Gray Havens

The Gray Havens Table of Contents An Explanation A Disclaimer (1) The Downfall of Rivendell (2) Weathertop (3) Bree (4) The Old Forest (5) Buckland (6) The Conquered Shire (7) The Prefect of Bag End (8) North & West (9) The Tower Hills (10) The End of the World An