A Visit from an Anglospherist
James C. Bennett, author of The Anglosphere Challenge, has left these very thought-provoking comments to a post of mine entitled Austria-Hungary and the Anglosphere:

Although I am not a Catholic and couldn't pretend to represent a Catholic viewpoint on this, a substantial number of Anglospherists are strong Catholics. This was a bit of a surprise to me as I hadn't particularly set out to write a book to appeal to Catholics or any other particular religion for that matter. However, one of the points the Anglosphere line of investigation has made is the continuity of English-speaking culture from well before the Industrial Revolution, and from well before the Reformation. In many ways the secret of the Anglosphere's successes has been the preservation and elaboration of the medieval constitutionalism that was wiped out by early modern authoritariansm on the Continent.

The Anglospherist analysis is among other things a critique of previous attempts at explaining Anglosphere exceptionalism. Among the inadequate explanations is the "protestant ethic" theory, since there is a good argument that all of the critical elements of Anglosphere exceptionalism were in place well before the reformation.

Mr. Bennett is also the man behind Albion's Seedlings, one of the most fascinating places in the blogosphere. Anyone interesed in geopolitics or language, espeically Ye Olde Englyshe, should pay it a visit.