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Linkfest 2020-11-20: Metahistorical Models

Peak Oil Never Went Away Peak Oil is something I’ve often had cause to discuss on With Both Hands. It is of the class of theories that John J. Reilly loved, metahistorical theories using simplified assumptions like Henry Adam’s energy predictions, Moore’s Law, Eroom’s Law, and

The Long View 2007-07-11: Let's Pick on First Things

Under editor Rusty Reno, First Things has posted a slate of articles recently about the post-liberal future, which in some ways could be seen as a change from the pro-democracy stance First Things took under Father Neuhaus. However, there was the famous End of Democracy issue in 1996 that caused

The Long View 2006-11-28: The Wall; Justice; the Red and the Green

While the alliance of Western Muslims and Western Leftists generates a lot of press, both now [cf. Michel Houellebecq’s Submission] and in the past, actual proletarian uprisings stubbornly refuse to follow suit. The Wall; Justice; the Red and the Green Are you troubled by the wall of separation between

Spengler's Future Updated

I added in a hyperlinked table of contents to Spengler's Future, John's programmatic [literally, he used BASIC] comparison of Rome, Egypt, the Ottoman Turks, and that offshoot of northwest Europe current known as the West. This is all rather fun, as long as you take it

The Long View: The Second Religiousness in the 21st Century

This is a seminal essay that John wrote for a presentation at the annual conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul in Minnesota, USA in 2005. He synthesizes many of his ideas into a broader prediction of

The Long View: Anatomy of Criticism

The Long View: Anatomy of Criticism

As a believer that great works of synthesis are the characteristic work of our age, I support this kind of book. Anatomy of Criticism By Northrop Frye Foreword by Harold Bloom Princeton University Press, 1957 (Paperback 1990) 383 Pages, $17.95 ISBN 0691069999 A review of this book really should

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