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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

The Long View 2008-03-20: Missing Greenhouse Signature; Arthur C. Clarke; JFK & Religion; Dune 2.0; Extreme Good Friday

The passing of Arthur C. Clarke in 2008 spurred this comment by John J. Reilly: Here is a mystery: Clarke was usually counted among the Big Three of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century; the other two were Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. All of them

The Long View: The Making of the President 1960

Sixty years later, this is still fascinating. The Making of the President 1960 By Theodore H. White Atheneum Publishers, 1961 400 Pages, Various Prices ASIN B000BPDQ28 Historians have long since written the second and third drafts about the contest between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon for the presidency