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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.

The Long View 2009-09-26: Jung in the 21st Century

It isn't at all clear that Carl Gustav Jung's reputation survived the publication of his most famous work, Liber Novus, known as the Red Book. Both John Reilly and Tim Powers have made use of his ideas, but the sheer strangeness of the work makes it

The Long View: Marcus Aurelius: A Life

Another Roman history lesson, courtesy of Frank McLynn's biography of Marcus Aurelius. I have been slowly re-reading [for probably the twentieth time] G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man, and I also find Chesterton's description of Classical Rome strikingly allusive. For Eastern Christians, the Roman

The Comtemplative Life

I'm going to break from my chronological reposting of John J. Reilly's The Long View for a bit, because I read a fascinating book review on SlateStarCodex, BOOK REVIEW: MASTERING THE CORE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA. I noticed that Scott Alexander's review was oddly

The Long View: Augustine: A Biography

I don't have much to add to this fine book review of a biography of St. Augustine, other than to highlight this: John of Eclanum Augustine: A Biography By Peter Brown University of California Press, 2000 Originally Published 1967 548 Pages, Various Prices ISBN 0-520-22757-3 A Review By

The Long View 2005-11-05: Happy Guy Fawkes Day

I've always found the co-option of Guy Fawkes, Catholic terrorist, by anarchists to be a bit funny. If there is any religion that is absolutely incompatible with that philosophy, it Catholic Christianity. Happy Guy Fawkes Day Readers of The Screwtape Letters will recall that infernal bureaucrat Screwtape once

The Long View 2005-11-03: Taxes, Techno-Libs, Intifada

The same basic plan for fixing the US Federal tax system keeps coming up: get rid of deductions, and make the rates lower so the change is revenue neutral. And, it will always never happen, because far too many voters and donors have lots of long-term economic decisions made with