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Linkfest 2018-06-18

Perhaps Monday is the new Friday around here. Conan the Barbarian: A Review, an Analysis, and a Little Bit of a Misunderstood and Improperly Played - While Talking About the Pulps I found this reading the Conan roundup from Monday. I also rate the 1982 Milius Conan higher than Rick

Soulminder Book Review

Soulminder by Timothy Zahn Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (September 23, 2014) 334 pages ASIN B07B675RVC For Dr. Adrian Sommer, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy—and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved

The Long View 2006-05-24: The Next America

Here are a couple of graphs to help illustrate John Reilly's points here. If we would really like to emulate the success of the last large wave of immigration to the United States, from roughly 1840 to 1930, it would be prudent of us to stop, and give

The Long View 2006-05-08: Unauthorized Versions

John Reilly mentions the Gospel reading from May 7th, 2006 mostly as the set-up for a Monty Python reference, but today's Gospel reading, from the second chapter of the Gospel of John, really does read like an internet meme: 15 He made a whip out of cords and

The Long View 2006-04-14: Good Friday

Since a lot of bollocks about Christ traditionally appears in Lent, and really ramps up in Holy Week, this is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Gospels have withstood a century and a half of higher criticism, with the result that something much like the

The Long View 2006-04-05: Der Linkerstreit

Damon Linker continues to write some interesting things, occasionally sparring with Ross Douthat on Twitter. He is still mostly working the same beat as In 2006, arguing that the liberal state should keep religion at arms length, at least to judge from the title of his most recent book, The

The Long View: An Angel Directs the Storm

This is a fine example of John's best work. In retrospect, President George W. Bush did some crazy things, but his critics were often even crazier. An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion & American Empire By Michael Northcott I.B. Tauris Co Ltd., 2004 200 Pages, US$