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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

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

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