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The Long View: C. S. Lewis: An Alternative Obituary

C. S. Lewis is now famous for having written the Chronicles of Narnia and a number of popular works of Christian apologetics, but as a young man he was involved in some dubious circles. This is an alternative account of his life had he not decided to seek the light.

The Long View: Name the Present, Name the Future

The identification of the present with nominalism ascendant is plausible, especially if you combine that with its handmaiden antinomianism. Name the Present, Name the Future The term "postmodern" is an unsatisfactory way to refer to the last few decades of the 20th century. (The era itself was not

The Long View: A Doomsday Reader: Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation

I've said before that Freud was a Fraud. One concept of Freud's that may have predictive validity, projection, is featured in this book review. A Doomsday Reader: Prophets, Predictors, and Hucksters of Salvation by Ted Daniels New York University Press, 1999 253 Pages, $15.16 ISBN:

The Long View 2004-11-04: Voting with their Flyer Miles; Integrity; Marketing

The continuing saga of John Reilly versus the HotLlama DVD player is pretty funny. This player doesn't seem to be commercially available anymore, but all of the Google search hits are for people complaining about it. Voting with their Flyer Miles; Integrity; Marketing Not only celebrities are threatening

The Long View 2004-11-04: Questions about Convertibility

With my recent discovery of a large number of John Reilly's book reviews and essays, I had been enjoying a respite from John's topical political commentary from thirteen years ago. Unfortunately, we need to get back at it. Questions about Convertibility As with most things in

The Long View: Fighting for Liberty and Virtue: Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century America

Olasky's Fighting for Liberty and Virtue seems a bit like Fernandez-Morera's Myth of the Andalusian Paradise, an regrettably polemical look at an inherently interesting subject. Fighting for Liberty and Virtue: Political and Cultural Wars in Eighteenth-Century America by Marvin Olasky Crossway Books, 1995 $25.00, 316

The Long View: Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary of Doom

Samuel Johnson may be one of the most influential figures in English orthography. Samuel Johnson and His Dictionary of Doom Perhaps the most common defense of the traditional orthography of English is that the spelling is supposed to reflect the etymologies of the words, and so gives useful clues to