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The Long View 2007-07-16: Steyn & Black; Harry Potter ending; The Bush Effect

It is fascinating to look back on the Presidency of George W. Bush. He was widely disliked in his second term, but at this point hardly anyone bothers to notice him for good or ill. Which is rather unlike Ronald Reagan, who still inspires hatred nearly 40 years later. I

The Long View 2007-07-11: Let's Pick on First Things

Under editor Rusty Reno, First Things has posted a slate of articles recently about the post-liberal future, which in some ways could be seen as a change from the pro-democracy stance First Things took under Father Neuhaus. However, there was the famous End of Democracy issue in 1996 that caused

The Long View: Empires of Trust: How Rome Built -- and America Is Building -- a New World By Thomas F. Madden

I love this quote: [Madden] is well aware that aspects of their societies that seem similar are often quite different in spirit and function. The dustjacket sports an photograph of the US Senate and a dramatic rendering of Cicero addressing the Roman Senate; both bodies were called a “senate,” but

The Long View 2007-07-07: Summorum Pontificum

Whether Summorum Pontificum actually heralds the beginning of the Second Religiousness is, not clear, at present, but at the very least the SSPX has improved its status within the Catholic Church in the last decade. Summorum Pontificum Today is the official publication date of a document and cover letter from

The Long View: Bounding Power: Republican Theory from the Polis to the Global Village By Daniel H. Deudney

It is fascinating to return to this book review, written in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. At the time, it seemed more plausible that non-state entities might permanently destabilize the security environment, but in 2020 this has just become the new normal. And while I do find some value

The Long View 2007-07-04: The Declaration of Independence & The Imperial Contract

This is one of the rare blog posts of the Long View that gets into something more interesting than just the controversies of the day. If you were to do a network analysis [which I have considered doing] of John’s internal hyperlinks, the essays and reviews he cites here

The Long View 2007-06-29: Bush Saved; Roman Show Trials; The New Deal and Morale; Libertarian Military Premises; July 7

This blog post by John J. Reilly has an instructive analysis of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and why it worked. Specifically, John argues that it worked even though it failed by the metrics used by both Left and Right in the United States today: GDP growth and unemployment. The