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The Long View 2009-03-20: The Iron Laws of History (Annotated)

The Long View 2009-03-20: The Iron Laws of History (Annotated)

John posted some bangers here: ...Hegel did retain the memory that the state was not merely a fence to keep out the state of nature, but a positive expression of the higher potentialities of human sociality. It is possible to imagine a state whose citizens are entities among whom violence

WBH Bi-monthly Digest 2024-04-19: Bring Back the Assholes

WBH Bi-monthly Digest 2024-04-19: Bring Back the Assholes

A long post from M. C. A. Hogarth on how well the Princess and the Frog holds up fifteen years later. The Princess and the Frog isn't a great fit for the Heroine's Journey, which is good, since checkbox-style scripts or plots are the death of

The Long View: The Beginning of Wisdom

John J. Reilly had quite a few thoughts about constitutional law. It should come as no surprise that he had some thoughts on Roe v. Wade. In this essay from 2000, John makes an argument very much like that articulated by Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement, that both the

The Long View 2008-04-27 to 2008-05-04: Obama is Right; The Pope and the Parliament of Man; The Hanging of Tariq Aziz; Benedict XVI on Liturgical Music and Immigration; Steyn on Hate-Crime laws

In this weeklong collation of shorter blog posts, John manages to slip in the kind of analysis he is best remembered for: finding the thread of historical processes in quotidian events. Here is a comment by John on liturgical music that manages to bring in Jungian psychology and the value

The Long View 2007-08-11: The Lethal Insistence

John J. Reilly shifted his blog posts at the end of July 2007 away from commenting on current events, which in retrospect isn’t usually very interesting, and started doing more short reflections based what was happening. I think the improvement in his posts at this distance in time is

The Long View 2007-04-20: Gonzales, Bering Tunnel, Mass Murder Today

John J. Reilly’s idea that managing demographics is a pre-constitutional power of government is one my favorites. Gonzales, Bering Tunnel, Mass Murder Today Regarding Gonzales v. Carhart, the United States Supreme Court decision upholding the federal law banning partial-birth abortion, the first thing to note is that the law

The Long View 2006-01-13: After Roe; Predators; Indigos; Pigs; Panspermia

Lots of fun little bits in this one. There are reasonable protections to extended to protect wilderness, and then there is the Wildlands Project, a scheme to return vast areas of the United States to howling wilderness. This goal isn't particularly hidden, but you can find references to