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The Long View 2009-03-20: The Iron Laws of History (Annotated)

The Long View 2009-03-20: The Iron Laws of History (Annotated)

John posted some bangers here: ...Hegel did retain the memory that the state was not merely a fence to keep out the state of nature, but a positive expression of the higher potentialities of human sociality. It is possible to imagine a state whose citizens are entities among whom violence

The Long View 2009-03-13

The Long View 2009-03-13

From the "line go up" point of view of simply looking at stock prices since 2009, it could be easy to forget how much heartache there really was in 2008/2009. Which is a very good reason to take all such assertions, historical or contemporary, under due consideration,

The Long View 2009-03-09

The Long View 2009-03-09

John J. Reilly helps us to understand what decadence means: Barzun laconically informs us that late medieval Europe was a "decadent" society. I myself had thought that Richard Gilman had permanently retired that word with his study "Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet," but Barzun

The Long View 2009-02-27

The Long View 2009-02-27

John J. Reilly was an attorney, a writer, and very well-read. He did like to opine on science, although in my years of knowing him and my subsequent years of going through his writing, he never struck me as a man who approached the world in a primarily quantitative way.

The Long View 2009-02-22

The Long View 2009-02-22

In the modern era, during times of severe stress, society and the state tend to merge, not pull apart. Maybe that is the defining characteristic of modernity, and of every era like modernity.

The age at which we do our greatest work

The age at which we do our greatest work

John J. Reilly was born in 1954. He wrote Spengler's Future in 1992, and published it in 1993. He was thus 38 or 39 when he started to produce his characteristic works. John continued to write up until his death at the age of 58, a writing career

The Long View 2009-02-15

The Long View 2009-02-15

There is a saying that the taxi drivers in Washington D.C. tend to come from whatever country the foreign policy establishment was interested in twenty years ago. As of 2023, the 2009 plan John mentions here to try to increase military recruitment by offering citizenship to select immigrants has