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The Long View: A History of the Crusades

Sir Steven Runciman's three volume history has seen quite a bit of criticism in the last twenty-five years. However, it tells a hell of a good story, and you can learn something even if you disagree with Runciman's take. A History of the Crusades By Sir

The Comtemplative Life

I'm going to break from my chronological reposting of John J. Reilly's The Long View for a bit, because I read a fascinating book review on SlateStarCodex, BOOK REVIEW: MASTERING THE CORE TEACHINGS OF THE BUDDHA. I noticed that Scott Alexander's review was oddly

The Long View: Augustine: A Biography

I don't have much to add to this fine book review of a biography of St. Augustine, other than to highlight this: John of Eclanum Augustine: A Biography By Peter Brown University of California Press, 2000 Originally Published 1967 548 Pages, Various Prices ISBN 0-520-22757-3 A Review By

The Long View 2005-10-16: Rather, Miers, Benedict, O'Brien

Pope Benedict didn't get enough credit for the alarming things he said that went over everyone's heads. Rather, Miers, Benedict, O'Brien Regarding the Dan Rather scandal involving the fake Air National Guard memos, readers will recall that it was not so much the discovery

A Man Called Ove Book Review

by Fredrik Backman Washington Square Press, 2015 337 pages ISBN 978-1476738024 This is a funny, funny book. I cannot remember laughing out loud quite so much, quite so often, with any other book I've read recently. Ove's responses to the ordinary annoyances of life are purely

The Long View 2005-09-20: Holy Libertarians on the Moon

I've benefited from programs in the state of Arizona that allow tax dollars to be redirected to Catholic schools by individual taxpayers, but I get what John Reilly is saying here about the dangers to churches of becoming dependent on public funding. Holy Libertarians on the Moon Regarding

The Long View 2005-08-05: Police Powers; The Skeptical Assassin; The Ironies of ID; The Travelog Not To Be Described

The Aga Khan reportedly protested that the Assassin's Creed series falsified the history of his sect, the Nizaris. I am entirely sympathetic. But falsification may be more than the series is truly capable of, since it features an unusually insipid storyline. I am also sympathetic to John'