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The Long View: Flicker

More fun with Albigensians, this time in novel form. Flicker: A Novel By Theodore Roszak Summit Books, 1991 591 Pages, US$19.95 ISBN 10:155652577X https://amzn.to/2YUEv6l One pities Mr. Roszak his reader mail, because it’s going to sound like this: At last the great conspiracy

The Long View 2007-04-18: Soggy Internet, Virginia Tech Massacre, The Secret Glory

The infrastructure failure that John mentions here where a big storm inundated NYC and affected theoretically robust networks like the Internet would be repeated on a much larger scale five years later with Hurricane Sandy. Soggy Internet, Virginia Tech Massacre, The Secret Glory No, it wasn't a nor&

The Long View: Crusade Against the Grail

Otto Rahn is one of those characters who would have had to be invented, if he didn’t actually exist. And if that were the case, you might accuse the author of fantastical speculations far beyond reason. This book review by John J. Reilly serves not only as a short

The Long View 2007-04-13: Sunspots, Christian Europe, Boomsday, Perpetual Peace

Something John J. Reilly talks about in this post, and something that was really common post 9/11, was the idea that Europeans who were failing to reproduce themselves would be replaced by immigrants from places that had not yet undergone the demographic transition. Much of this was, overwrought, at

The Long View 2007-04-10: 2035; God & the Left

John uses this 2007 report from the British Ministry of Defence to riff on some of his favorite themes. In particular, he seems to have well understood that communications technology could be used to surveil and manipulate just as much as it can be used to enrage mobs, and this

The Long View 2007-04-05: Piracy, Democratic Plan B, More Piracy, Alger Hiss, Fukuyama's End

Letters of marque never really took off, but private military companies seem to have done relatively well in the years since the Iraq War. Piracy, Democratic Plan B, More Piracy, Alger Hiss, Fukuyama's End Could the United States prosecute the Terror war by licensing pirates? Instapundit entertains this

The Long View 2007-04-02: Saecula, Bismarck & Lincoln, House of Lords

The 1860s were a peculiar decade. You saw the US Civil War, the formation wars of the German Empire, the War of the Triple Alliance in South America that killed something like 70% of all men in Paraguay, and the Taiping Rebellion in China that killed something like 15%-20%