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The Long View: Crusade Against the Grail

Otto Rahn is one of those characters who would have had to be invented, if he didn’t actually exist. And if that were the case, you might accuse the author of fantastical speculations far beyond reason. This book review by John J. Reilly serves not only as a short

The Long View 2007-03-28: AI Marketing; Chant before Swine; WWDD; The Night Vision; Lafferty!

John J. Reilly makes a statement here that I readily agree with, but is probably highly non-obvious to almost everyone: As I have remarked before, "What Would Darwin Do?" may soon become a more potent bracelet inscription than "What Would Jesus Do?" For most public-policy questions,

The Long View 2007-03-12: Several Small Matters and a Large One

A common theme in theories [or future histories] that posit the formation of a universal state in the next hundred years or so is that they almost always also posit a re-unification of Christianity. Since the schisms between the apostolic churches are often at least related to jurisdictional differences in

Good Omens and Good Theology

With the popular success of the Amazon Originals series Good Omens, based upon the popular success of Neil Gaiman’s book of the same name, we also have popular Catholics pointing out that Neil Gaiman doesn’t exactly have a STD [Doctorate of Sacred Theology]. First, the Catholic Herald, Good

The Long View 2007-01-27: The Real Enemy; Guardian Robots; The Constant of Tolerable Terror

Two of the links John J. Reilly put in this post are really good: A Culture Worth Dying For The fact is that if democracy meant nothing else than that blasphemy could be freely circulated, or that pornography was always available at the touch of a button, or that Michael

The Long View: We All Fall Down

The best paragraph in this fascinating book review by John J. Reilly is this: As an aside, we may note that this solidifying of the self into an entity that acts without regard to desire is also the goal of certain esotericists. The adamantine self becomes a "body of

Dragon and Liberator Book Review

Dragon and Liberator: Dragonback book 6 by Timothy Zahn 368 pages Published by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (March 27, 2018) in a set with volumes 4 and 5 ASIN B079N6ZHPG The time has come for Jack and Draycos to fulfill their destiny, or die trying. The K’da/