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The Long View: Permanent Interests

This is a short essay by John, now nearly 20 years old. It bears recollection now. Would that John had remembered this wisdom in the run up to the Iraq War: The fundamental reality is that Earth is Eurasia. The important parts of Eurasia are its extremities. The rest of

The Long View: After the Third Age

Tradition isn't all bad. After all, it is just a kind of historically informed neo-Platonism. However, it does have some sketchy friends. Tradition is one of the elements that makes up esoteric fascism, the New Age occult revival of actual fascism. One nonetheless cannot equate esoteric fascism with

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: The Cunning Man

This is why I do this. Coming back to this barely remembered book review after many, many years is much like reuiniting with an old friend. I can see in these paragraphs things I have said, and things I have thought, forgetting their true source. This post is a rich

The Long View 2002-07-25: An Unexpected Abyss

Baron Julius Evola This is where you will find John's real view of the Global War on Terror. It wasn't, and isn't, possible for any of the various counter-insurgencies, civil wars, and bush wars currently raging in the world to bring down the United

The Long View: Dreamer of the Day

Francis Parker YockeyI am astonished that men like Francis Parker Yockey actually exist. Yockey is a reminder that truth is always stranger than fiction. The closest literary analogue that I have read is Tim Power's Declare. Of course, that is a secret history, based on the very real