The Long View: At the End of an Age
This book review of John Reilly's is the source of one of my favorite quotes:
How do we know that the 500 or so years of the Modern Age are at last drawing to a close? Lukacs's answer to this, and it's a good
History
The Long View: For Want of a Nail
Another counterfactual history, but this time one meant as entertainment. I haven't read this book, but I may get around to it at some point.
“I care only if it is effective on the page. I agree with the late Ernest Newman: a great score is more finely
The Long View: A New Dynasty
This is a fine essay of alternative history by John Reilly, regarding an early twentieth century China in which someone managed to cobble together enough Confucian orthodoxy to proclaim themselves Emperor, of a sort, sparing China Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
In a fascinating aside, John gets at what
Rule by Coup
I saw a comment on Reddit relating the story of an attempted coup by a Japanese officer to prevent Emperor Hirohito from surrendering after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was interesting enough to reproduce here, in full.
Interesting little story, an 8mm Nambu almost destroyed the earth.
Hope Reborn and Conqueror Book Review
Hope Reborn
by David Drake and S. M. Stirling
Contains the Forge and the Hammer
Baen Publishing Enterprises, 2013
586 Pages, US$13.00
ISBN 978-1-4516-3877-6
Conqueror
by David Drake and S. M. Stirling
Contains the Anvil, the Steel, and the Sword
Baen Publishing Enterprises, 2003
633 Pages, US$25.
The Long View: Spengler's Future
When I did the site upgrade, John's online book, Spengler's Future, got jumbled up because I had it hosted on separate pages. I rolled everything up into one page, and added it to the navigation bar.
Spengler's Future was an interesting exercise, a book
The Long View: God's Chinese Son
If you have ever wondered why the Chinese Communist Party was so harsh on Falun Gong, it was probably the memory of the Taiping Rebellion. That war is one of the deadliest in recorded history. Taking the low estimate, 20 million people were killed in China during the Taiping Rebellion.