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The Long View 2008-02-27: Killer Robots, Giant Snakes, McCain's Necessity, Pournelle's Fallacy

The widespread use of drones in combat has been talked about for decades, but still hasn’t quite happened. The recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh may be how that long mooted future finally comes about. Killer Robots, Giant Snakes, McCain's Necessity, Pournelle's Fallacy Landmines are no substitute

The Long View 2008-02-25: Spenglers False & True

John J. Reilly mentions here his extended review of Amaury De Riencourt’s The Coming Caesars. An updated version of the book came out in 2013, but the original was published in 1957. Like John, I am struck by de Riencourt’s outsider’s assessment of America. Spenglers False &

The Long View 2008-02-23: The Transnational Right; Hillary Needs Her Own Scandal; McCain Could Have Avoided One

This 2008 preview of the policies of Viktor Orbán in The Nation seems on point. The tone of the coverage certainly hasn’t changed. Also, looking back at John J. Reilly’s review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone, which he links here, I find I wrote this in the

The Long View 2008-02-21: Campus Lockdown; Times misfire; Spengler Meets John Brown; Gerson and Providence; Vox Day Blast

John J. Reilly makes the excellent point that as beloved and influential as C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton are, most of their work is between 60 and 100 years old, and the obsessions of the broader culture have changed quite a bit in the intervening decades. Apologetics must

The Long View 2008-02-18: The Menace of the Yutes; Obama's Ontological Deficit; That Republican '70s Show

I rather enjoyed this paragraph of John J. Reilly’s from 2008 which uses the idea “socialize the risk, privatize the profits” without using that phrase. Turning from Senator Obama's ontological deficit to the implosion of the Reagan Coalition, we find the key to the latter in Steyn&

The Long View 2008-02-15: Nix the Co-Redemptrix; The Archbishop versus the Queen; Hillary versus the Democrats; A Proper Solar System

I’ve always found the co-Redemptrix controversy a bit obscure. I do find it a bit amusing that John J. Reilly identified a matching tendency in the Orthodox. Some things really are universal. Nix the Co-Redemptrix; The Archbishop versus the Queen; Hillary versus the Democrats; A Proper Solar System Here

The Long View 2008-02-11: Rand & the New Atheism; Anne Rice Vindicated; The Softening of Steyn; Sharia at the Ernstfall

For someone as interested in political ideas and movements as John J. Reilly was, I appreciate this take on politics: All politics is opera. The semantic content is rarely the important part. As politics comes to be personal in the waning days of the Republic, we should keep this in