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The Long View 2009-01-01: Count Your Blessings

It might not be obvious, thirteen years later, but this was John J. Reilly’s deadpan satire of how 2009 could have been worse. Count Your Blessings For many people, the television images this morning of the continuing sack of the Green Zone brought a sense of closure, if not

The Long View 2008-12-29: Happy New Year

John J. Reilly was a big proponent of public order, or what post-liberals right now term the common good. John was in favor of universal healthcare because he deemed it a public good, rather than a right. Building, and perhaps more importantly, maintaining all the vast infrastructure of manufacturing and

The Long View: The Beginning of Wisdom

John J. Reilly had quite a few thoughts about constitutional law. It should come as no surprise that he had some thoughts on Roe v. Wade. In this essay from 2000, John makes an argument very much like that articulated by Christopher Caldwell’s Age of Entitlement, that both the

The Long View 2008-12-16: Boxing Day

John J. Reilly links to a 2009 article by Rev. Richard John Neuhaus that has this tidbit in it: “some 45 percent of respondents in the Citizens Participation Survey who reported participating in a national protest did so because of abortion..." As best I can tell, the study that

The Long View 2008-12-21: Solstice Alternatives

The fictional book acknowledgment that John J. Reilly writes here is perfect. Solstice Alternatives The only merit of today is its brevity. The sun disappeared at some forgotten point last week. In the time since, the clinically depressive skies have produced every known water-based form of precipitation, all of which

The Long View: Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

John J. Reilly covers a lot of ground here. I’ll post this comment as inducement to read the rest: The book delivers less than its subtitle promises. A study that used the world wars to explain the evaporation of colonialism between the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

The Long View 2008-12-14: The Kairos and Governor Blagojevich

I know these are mug shots, but the crazy eyes on Ira Einhorn should have been a clue. The Kairos and Governor Blagojevich Readers of this space who regularly attend divine services may have noticed that the sullen, resentful people who crouch in the back pews as they cling to