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The Long View: Hitler's Willing Executioners

John linked to this early book review in his blog post about Goldhagen's slander of Pope Pius XII. John clearly changed his mind about the quality of Goldhagen's work in between the two. John does note in his earlier work that Goldhagen was given to reading

The Long View: Constitution of the Ecumenical Empire

John was very interested in the form the future might take. He wrote a book that was his attempt to limn the future by means of a program he wrote in BASIC and the ideas of Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee. Like myself, John felt that the idea of cycles

The Long View: In Search of a Usable Apocalypse

John never thought much of the increasingly popular zombie apocalypse. He did do a pretty favorable review of World War Z, but he regarded zombies are mere meat puppets. Nonetheless, John was a scholar of the apocalyptic, a subject has mostly become a matter of folk religion in America. Recently,

The Long View: After Darwin

One of John's best quotes is this: In 1914, when the century began to manifest its characteristic features, the guiding spirits of the time were Freud and Marx and Darwin and Einstein. In 1989, when in a political sense the 20th century was already over, the guiding spirits

The Long View: The Fate of Noospheres

John was an accomplished essayist. His book reviews really are long form essays inspired by the book he was reading. Often I learned things from his book reviews that weren't contained in the book he reviewed. In my mind, John exemplified the ideal of a liberal education. He

The Long View: The End of The World Book Review

John wrote a lot of book reviews. I based my own book reviews on what he did on his own site. This is one of his earliest, written in 1998. The influence was really all one way [from John to me], but you can see that we had lots of

The Long View 2002-01-25 Papal Election Campaign goes Negative

John did a lot of yeoman's work exposing the shoddy work that lay under claims that Pius XII somehow didn't do enough to prevent the Holocaust. This is a lie with legs, but John did as much as anyone to point out how deeply silly it