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The Long View 2007-05-08: Sarkozy; the Naughty Vicars; Immigration

This is an interesting look back at the election of Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France at about the same time that Barack Obama had his first time as President of the United States. Sarkozy; the Naughty Vicars; Immigration Surely Amir Taheri goes too far in The New York Post, where

The Long View 2007-05-03: Spam, Spamalot, Spam, Nightfall

This is a pretty good quote about the attractions of sacred or magical objects: he is as aware as Tennyson was that "Grail Questing" is a dark and even sinister enterprise, usually undertaken by dark and sometimes sinister people Much like political office, usually the one who wants

The Long View 2007-04-27: Next; Gliese 581c; National Greatness

This is my go-to quote regarding the works of Philip Dick: He wasn't a nihilist, but he was ontologically subversive. In contrast, I believe that reality is fragile and merits our support. Next; Gliese 581c; National Greatness Philip Dick's stories are unavoidable for someone with my

The Long View 2007-04-23: Catholicism & Open Borders; Tolkein & Higher Loyalties

John J. Reilly wasn’t much amused by the trend toward de facto open borders in American Catholic thinking. It did not turn out to be true that this trend was directly imported into the American church by business interests. I suspect that for many people who argue this way,

The Long View: Lucifer's Court

This is John J. Reilly’s masterful summary of not only esoteric fascism, but of the curious historical phenomenon of the Albigensians. John wraps up everything he wrote over a number of years on the subject into a cohesive whole. Lucifer’s Court: A Heretic’s Journey in Search of

The Long View: The Master Plan

The Ahnererbe was a peculiar institution in the Third Reich. It had an independent source of revenue in the form of a bicycle reflector patent, which meant that while some of its activities were favored and supported, others weren’t, but it could continue regardless. Its research was a weird

The Long View: Himmler's Crusade

Himmler’s Crusade: The Nazi Expedition to Find the Origins of the Aryan Race By Christopher Hale John Wiley & Sons, 2003 422 Pages, US$27.95 ISBN 0-471-26292-7 Remarkable stories clustered around the Schäfer Expedition to Tibet of 1938-1939. The project was only one of several German expeditions to