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The Long View: Heroic Conservatism

This long book review from 2007 is almost enough to make me remember why I liked President George W. Bush at the time. Michael Gerson, chief speechwriter for the 43rd President, had some genuinely good ideas. Unfortunately, giving the nod to subsidiarity in local relief initiatives cannot make up for

The Long View 2007-12-13: The Bali Conference and Its Hecklers; Plus: Spinning Immanuel Kant

Unlike the Metropolis post, this blog of John J. Reilly’s is mostly just commentary on current events. The Kant election-style attack ad is pretty funny though. The Bali Conference and Its Hecklers; Plus: Spinning Immanuel Kant If you want the Party Line on the Climate Change Conference now underway

Overlooked Again: The Phoenix Ring Book 2 by Jon Mollison Book Review

Joe Smith, the forgotten man, returns in Jon Mollison’s Overlooked Again [Silver Empire affiliate link]. Joe finally faces a true nemesis, a Prime with preternaturally keen hearing and sight, not to mention Gallic unflappability. This is also the first book two in the Heroes Unleashed universe, so we get

The Long View 2007-12-01: Spe Salvi

This is simply a masterpiece of John J. Reilly’s work. I’ll put in some choice quotes, but you must read the whole thing. The encyclical is surprisingly respectful of atheism: “It is for the sake of morality that this God has to be contested,” much of the progressive

The Long View 2007-11-26: From Lambeth Palace and Back Again, by Way of the Absolute Elsewhere

I think about this quote frequently. While I am sympathetic to projects that attempt to harmonize Church and State, in the twentieth century context, such experiments often turned out poorly for the Church. As John points out, the increasing power of the Papacy correlates well with the loss of the

King David's Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle Book Review

King David’s Spaceship [Amazon link] is the first book by Jerry Pournelle I remember reading. I picked it up from the local library in 2006, and I could not put it down. Colonel Nathan MacKinnie’s desperate quest to find a forgotten database of ancient technology on a barbaric

War Demons: The Prodigal Son Book 1 by Russell Newquist Book Review

War Demons [Silver Empire affiliate link] is the veteran’s take on supernatural horror. Sometimes we casually refer to the men who come back from war suffering from PTSD and survivor’s guilt as demon-haunted; but for Michael Alexander it is anything but a metaphor. We now come to the