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The Long View: Religion and Governance: A Response

I can't find fault with John's notion that future has a tendency to turn out otherwise than expected. Religion and Governance: A Response by John J. Reilly This comment is in reply to the paper, "Religion and Governance," produced by Harlan Cleveland and Marc

The Long View: The Lucifer Principle

This is a rare book I read before John recommended it. I think this is a worthy summary. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History by Howard Bloom The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995 466 pp., $24.00 ISBN 0-87113-532-9 If, like the present reviewer, you are

The Long View: Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years

Prior to 1500, the idea that Northwestern Europe and its disapora would come to dominate the world would have seemed pretty strange. One can make a case that this is a temporary state of affairs. All of the ancient seats of civilization were in other places, and had been for

Linkfest 2017-02-17

A Big Little Idea Called Legibility A fine analysis of how utopian ideals fail. John Horton Slaughter John Horton Slaughter, Lawman Last August, I read It Happened in Arizona, a series of short chapters on Arizona history. After reading that book, I realized that a lot of early settlers in

The Long View: Spirit Wars

Now nearly twenty years old, this book review is a pretty good primer of the cultural movements in America that made the Da Vinci Code a best-seller. So far, the biggest religious revival of the early twenty-first century has been an increasing lack of religious affiliation at all. The Second

The Long View: The Coming World Civilization

The most interesting idea to come out of this book by William Ernest Hocking is the 'unlosables', those aspects of a culture that persist even when the society that created them falls into decay. It the unlosables that we speak of when we refer to the Greek or

The Long View 2004-03-29: Unexpected Storms

Richard Clarke comes in again for more aspersions from John. I'm not Clarke deserved this, but I suppose it doesn't matter much now, even though it would seem that Clarke was probably more in the right. Of vastly more interest [to me] is John's