Benjamin I. Espen 🏛
@BenEspen
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Physicist turned engineer, Thomist philosophy, Student of millennial movements. I write book reviews, mostly of sci fi and fantasy, and re-post The Long View.
Joined April 2013
This can't be emphasized enough. There *is* a genuinely American fantasy tradition that pulls from different sources. You can see a part of it right here.
@libertydude1 From that perspective, GRRM and Jordan aren’t the “American Tolkien.” They’re just writing European-style fantasy. There’s nothing quintessentially American about their work. Burroughs, on the other hand, wrote something uniquely and profoundly American.
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@vivavoxlegis1 I used to do star ratings for books and I stopped for exactly that reason. Different things had inherently different scales, and that was a huge pain so I stopped.
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@RayGunEtiquette @whitepillmedia @TookysMag I would like to get books in front of more eyeballs, and I'm also not sure what the right solution is either. I know that luck plays a role, but I'd like to stack the odds somehow.
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@partylike1399 @NotJohnDaker His other thread is quite good
Many people are avoid the real issues with Vance's position on immigration, because addressing it seriously raises hard and uncomfortable questions, especially for those who take Catholic social teaching seriously, and don't reduce it to slogans or weaponize it for their politics
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I will report back. @AaronIrber
It is the dawn of the thirteenth century. Plucked from university, a young theology student named Albert sets off for the East on an adventure that will change the fate of Christendom...
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@BrainLeakage03 I can remember young men my age saying things about this that supports your thesis, about how cool it would be to live a world like that. At the time, I thought living in that kind of world sounded horrible, but in retrospect it is the displaced sense of adventure that mattered.
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RT @DouthatNYT: From the conversion story of one of Wikipedia's founders, an argument related to the case I make in "Believe" -- that it's…
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@moveincircles @niall_gooch One hears much the same story in the US with much the same underlying cause. History courses at all levels have been enthusiastic about documenting atrocities, but often lack the ability to synthesize any kind of coherent narrative sweep other than the parade of horrors.
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@falsedvmaster @JohnDCook Correct, the costs are unevenly distributed by direction. Still pretty cheap, if you think about how far it is.
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