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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

The Long View: The Red Book Liber Novus

I can't add anything to this. Enjoy. The Red Book Liber Novus By Carl Gustav Jung Edited by Sonu Shamdasani Preface by Ulrich Hoerni Translated from the German by Mary Kyburz, John Peck & Sonu Shamdasani 2009, W.W. Norton & Company Philemon Series 416 Pages US$122.