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Retribution: Galaxy's Edge Book 9 Review

Retribution: Galaxy's Edge #9 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole Kindle Edition, 496 pages Published October 29th 2018 by Galaxy's Edge ASIN B07GNGLDWM I threatened to write an elaborate thinkpiece on this book, and since no-one talked me off the cliff, here it is. I think

Pop Kult Warlord Book Review

Pop Kult Warlord: Soda Pop Soldier Book 2 by Nick Cole Kindle edition, 318 pages Published November 4th, 2018 by Castalia House ASIN B07K6SRSLW A man with decisions to make. Choices that weigh heavily on him. Heavy is the brow that wears the crown, someone once said. I may be

The Long View 2006-11-13: TXT, Steyn, Spengler, Tridentine

It has genuinely been long enough that a terrorist attack that I have no personal stake in, like the Madrid bomadmbings of 2004, with 193 people killed and 2,000 injured, seems like it happened in another lifetime. At the time, I remember reading hot takes [which wasn’t a

The Long View 2006-11-10: The Morning of the Day Before

I hadn’t known [or had forgotten] that John J. Reilly was among the Catholics who find the logic of Humane Vitae less than airtight. He was also among the much smaller group who thinks the doctrine is correct, it just needs to be explained a bit better. The Morning

The Long View: Third Law Conservatism

John Reilly proposes here an interesting psychology of schism: The usual motive for schism, however, is conservative: new groups form because they believe that the old one has departed from tradition in some way. For groups like the Old Catholics [split from the Catholic Church after Vatican I proposed papal

The Long View 2006-10-30: Premonitions and Dark Arts

There is an interesting premonition of the Eurozone financial crisis here. Monetary union between Germany and Italy and Germany and Greece devastated the economies of the smaller, less productive countries. Some people saw this coming a long time ago. There is a kind of analogy to be made to the

The Long View 2006-10-23: American Nadir; Empire; Art; Indult; Thanatophobia

I would concur with John Reilly here that a sung Mass, whether High or Low, is a remarkable experience. There are a variety of sung settings for the Mass, in both the ordinary and extraordinary forms, by well-known composers. It is unfortunately difficult to find one in practice. I had