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The Long View 2004-07-16: I Read These Things So You Don't Have To

John is presumably past caring at this point. However: His arguments carry less force now, however, because they included some falsifiable predictions: "U.S. military forces may exhaust the remnants of the Ba'ath but that will not overcome Shi'a groups like Moqtada Sadr's

The Long View 2004-07-12: Updates, Millennials, Failures, Zap Guns

It will be interesting to see if Strauss and Howe's generational model comes to anything. Updates, Millennials, Failures, Zap Guns A helpful reader saw my comments last week about the new, unsuccessful film, King Arthur, and sent me some information on the historical model the film uses. The

The Long View: Against the Modern World

This book review is part of the reason I distrust Religious Studies departments. Anything influenced by Evola and Guénon probably bears close watching. John's warning here is pretty important in the post 9/11 era as well: If you've been reading about Islam in English, you

The Long View: The System of Antichrist

Here is an excellent example of why I still think John J. Reilly has something to say all these years later. This book review is a synthesis of ideas he had been working on for nearly ten years, nicely summarized by the links he put in to his earlier work.

The Long View: The Apocalypse Kit

All these years later, the Heaven's Gate webpage is still up and running. That is an apt metaphor for John's point here: millennialism is a permanent [well, really really stable] feature of the human mind. You see the same pattern over and over again, in widely

The Long View: The Celestine Prophecy

The archetype of gassy New Age puffery. I'm with John: probably not actively harmful, but it won't do you much good either. The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Warner Books, 1993 246 pp., $17.95 ISBN: 0-446-51862-X LC: 93-61754 Let us be charitable. Pilgrim's

The Long View: Spirit Wars

Now nearly twenty years old, this book review is a pretty good primer of the cultural movements in America that made the Da Vinci Code a best-seller. So far, the biggest religious revival of the early twenty-first century has been an increasing lack of religious affiliation at all. The Second