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The Long View: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

The Rosicrucian Order is the kind of thing I couldn't get enough of when I was a teenager and a young man, and now bores me to tears. Accordingly, I'm sympathetic to John's critical reading of what the history of such movements really means.

The Long View: Endless Things

I suspect that John's review is rather better than this book. Endless Things a part of Ægypt By John Crowley 400 Pages, US$24.00 Small Beer Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-1-931520-225 Solemnity is out of order in a review of a book that ends with a mountain-top pastorale

The Long View: The Forge of Christendom

Cricketer, historian, and author Tom Holland is here a proponent of the thesis that one of the things that truly differentiates the Christian West, Christendom, is the separation of powers between church and state that gradually evolved out of a fight over who was allowed to nominate bishops. However, Holland

The Long View: A History of the Crusades

Sir Steven Runciman's three volume history has seen quite a bit of criticism in the last twenty-five years. However, it tells a hell of a good story, and you can learn something even if you disagree with Runciman's take. A History of the Crusades By Sir

The Long View: America Alone

If the National Intelligence Council really predicted that the EU will collapse by 2020, their prediction is looking like a real long shot at this point. Maybe that is why DARPA funded Philip Tetlock's superforecaster project: to improve the accuracy of things like this. To be fair, if

The Long View 2011-06-17: Decline, Afterlife, Google, Heidegger

Dipping into John's blog posts six years later from where we are now in the chronological re-posting project reveals some regrets about the course of action he advocated for pretty strongly in 2002-2003. Which is a good thing. Decline, Afterlife, Google, Heidegger Over at Financial Times, I see,

The Long View: Being and Time

Heidegger's star has dimmed a bit, but his heavy German prose is still famous. Being and Time By Martin Heidegger Translated from the German Seventh Edition By John Macquarie & Edward Robinson First edition (Sein und Zeit) 1927 __________ HarperPerennial 2008 589 Pages, US$19.9 9 ISBN 978-0-06-157559-4