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The Long View 2007-02-20: The Deluge; School Stories; Hyperinflation; Murtha Plan

This blog post from 2007 is kind of eerie in how it could almost be current: * Cardinal Pell * Harry Potter * The implosion of Venezula Apparently nothing new ever happens. The Deluge; School Stories; Hyperinflation; Murtha Plan Disturbed by charges in the press of religious obscurantism in connection with global warming,

The Long View 2007-02-16: 911 & the Failure of Imagination; Warmed-Over Cold War; The Fate of the Unworthy

2007 was about the point when even John J. Reilly started to get tired of the administration of President George W. Bush. 911 & the Failure of Imagination; Warmed-Over Cold War; The Fate of the Unworthy There is more than one history of the world, as John Crowley never tires

The Long View 2007-02-14: Happy Non-Existence; Who Lost Britain; AH Mag; The Longer Boom; Carl Sagan; God & Logos

I would have definitely read this magazine. Happy Non-Existence; Who Lost Britain; AH Mag; The Longer Boom; Carl Sagan; God & Logos This study may have implications as unnerving as a trapdoor, if you think about it: LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is the worst country in the industrialized world in

The Long View 2007-02-09: Steyn on D'Souza; Hillary v. Rudolph; Climate Crimes; Mystery History

It is a real pity that John J. Reilly didn’t live long enough to see President Trump. As a longtime Jersey resident, I’m sure he would have had opinions. Here is a funny bit on Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton: My own suspicion is that Senator Clinton'

The Long View 2007-02-07: Islamic Reformation; Pro-Natalist Irony; Kakutani on D'Souza

A less relaxed blogger might explain in angry detail that reproduction is only the central circle in the Ven diagram of the human model of marriage. The next layer is regulation of the co-existence of men and women, the next layer is the care of the elderly, and the last

The Long View: The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village

C. S. Lewis famously made much the same argument in the Abolition of Man that McFaul makes here: the ethical systems of most world religions are strikingly similar, no matter how incompatible their ultimate claims about reality are. An interesting aside here is if you look at the ethnographic literature,

The Long View 2007-02-04: Glitter & Doom

This Weimar era art exhibition John J. Reilly describes here sounds fascinating. I found a few examples from the three artists John said were most prominent in the show: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz. Their work is fascinating, but I can see why the Weimar era couldn’t