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The Long View 2008-04-08: Madonna's Casablanca; Cellphone Phobia; Liberal Fascism; Border Patrol; Trivial Asteroid Hit

It is not at all clear that the event described in the Sumerian tablet can be linked to a landslide in Austria, but John J. Reilly’s point about the apparent lack of other references to the impact event is interesting. Madonna's Casablanca; Cellphone Phobia; Liberal Fascism; Border

The Long View Re-Posting Project Publishing Update

I am happy to say that I received a letter this week from the estate of John J. Reilly, giving me permission to republish his books, and to create derivative works from his on-line materials. I will be looking into options for re-publishing John’s four existing books to start.

The Long View 2008-03-30: Horror Shows

Unlike John J. Reilly, I do have a beef with Objectivists, and Rand in particular, but then again as a teenager I fell under their spell for a brief period, so it natural that I would. I have nothing against Objectivists, and Rand seemed to me a colorful public character,

The Long View 2008-03-28: The Stuff at Enceladus; The Making of the Goracle; Fitna Premiers

I find myself wondering in retrospect whether John J. Reilly just got lucky when he frequently expressed his opinion that Hillary Clinton was never going to be elected President. He ended up being right, but was it just his partisanship combined with luck? His reading here of JFK filtered through

The Long View 2008-03-26: Hierarchies in Conflict

In retrospect, it would appear that the baptism of Magdi Allam John J. Reilly wrote of a few days before this blog post was motivated by partisan political ends, rather than a love of Christ. Allam left the Church in a huff only five years later, claiming that his journey

The Long View 2008-03-24: Children of Men; Central Planning & Global Warming; The West Today; Mission to Islam

John J. Reilly was the guy who taught me that populism doesn’t have to be contrary to effective government: Today we need to distinguish "central planning" from the maintenance and development of public institutions that are essential infrastructure for civil society. Children of Men; Central Planning &

The Long View: The Third Reich in Power

Richard J. Evans shows that the Third Reich was about Art and Health. The Third Reich in Power By Richard J. Evans The Penguin Press, 2005 941 Pages, US$37.95 ISBN 1-59420-074-2 A thousand years would be needed, I think, to read all the books that have already been