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The Long View 2009-04-17: Spengler at the Zombies' Tea Party

The Long View 2009-04-17: Spengler at the Zombies' Tea Party

Fifteen years ago, I probably wouldn't have taken a bet that the Boston Globe would still be in business in 2024, but they are still chugging along. On the other hand, the loss the New York Times took to sell the paper was staggering. The Times bought the

WBH Digest 2024-11-17: The Perennial Apocalypse

WBH Digest 2024-11-17: The Perennial Apocalypse

Today the With Both Hands digest returns with exciting news! I have re-released John J. Reilly's The Perennial Apocalypse! The book is available as a paperback and ebook on Amazon. Those of you who are members of my mailing list also have access to free downloads of both

The Long View: American Babylon

The Long View: American Babylon

Fr. Richard John Neuhaus liked to say the first thing about politics is that is not the first thing. Over the course of his life, Fr. Neuhaus was an active player in American politics, but he always tried to keep it in its proper place: In this understanding, it is

The Long View: How Rome Fell

The Long View: How Rome Fell

And now we have John's review/reflection on just how the Western Roman Empire became capable of falling. As John was keenly interested in cyclical theories of history, it should come as no surprise that John's analysis is a combination of decreasing state capacity occurring in

The Long View: The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Long View: The Fall of the Roman Empire

One of the things I enjoyed the most about John J. Reilly's book reviews is that he was not only a gifted summarizer, able to quickly sum up the key points of a book, he was knowledgeable enough to critique and expand upon those key points in interesting

The Long View 2009-04-09: Meetings, Bloody Meetings

The Long View 2009-04-09: Meetings, Bloody Meetings

John's very anodyne title for this blog post doesn't do justice to what he was thinking about here. John was using fiction, in this case mostly H. G. Well's The Shape of Things to Come, as a launching point to consider how the world