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The Long View 2007-12-24: Merry Christmas!

John J. Reilly lays out an argument here that religious tolerance in the United States doesn’t really have a neutral point of view as to what constitutes “religion”: First, we should recall that religious toleration, at least in the Anglo-American tradition, is the legal embodiment of a Protestant notion

The Long View 2007-12-21: Alternative Futures; Bombadil; New Greenhouse Model; Huckabee & Political Physics

There is a great deal of 2007 political controversy in this post by John J. Reilly that doesn’t matter much anymore, but his passing aside on Tom Bombadil reminded me of a series of tweets by Misha Burnett earlier this month. While it isn’t true that Tolkien invented

The Long View: Heroic Conservatism

This long book review from 2007 is almost enough to make me remember why I liked President George W. Bush at the time. Michael Gerson, chief speechwriter for the 43rd President, had some genuinely good ideas. Unfortunately, giving the nod to subsidiarity in local relief initiatives cannot make up for

The Long View 2007-12-19: Tradition; Kenosis; CBC on Neuhaus; Laws of Nature; Hobbits

John makes an off-hand comment here that helps to illustrate why it was so hard to figure what my taste in fiction was: In principle, The Lord of the Rings is the sequel to The Hobbit. Tolkien's publishers thought they had commissioned another nice little children's

The Long View 2007-12-13: The Bali Conference and Its Hecklers; Plus: Spinning Immanuel Kant

Unlike the Metropolis post, this blog of John J. Reilly’s is mostly just commentary on current events. The Kant election-style attack ad is pretty funny though. The Bali Conference and Its Hecklers; Plus: Spinning Immanuel Kant If you want the Party Line on the Climate Change Conference now underway

The Long View 2007-12-11: Metropolis Reloaded; Jones's Skull; Steyn's Glory; The Conservative Mutant

The original Metropolis is one of those movies I haven’t quite got around to watching. However, I do enjoy Osamu Tezuka’s version [Amazon affiliate link] immensely. I never saw the need to remake the original silent film, as Tezuka did a masterful job creating a comic book using

The Long View 2007-12-06: Progress after Modernity; Islam & Atheism; Secular Latin; Latin Mass Poster

Things have been quiet around the blog recently. Hopefully, things will pick up soon, and we can cruise into John J. Reilly’s 2008. Progress after Modernity; Islam & Atheism; Secular Latin; Latin Mass Poster Persons interested in the end of modernity should note this remark by G. K. Chesterton