The Long View Soon The Long View Re-publishing Project will have news soon.Why post old articles?Who was John J. Reilly?All of John's posts hereAn archive of John's site
The Long View 2009-04-09: Meetings, Bloody Meetings John's very anodyne title for this blog post doesn't do justice to what he was thinking about here. John was using fiction, in this case mostly H. G. Well's The Shape of Things to Come, as a launching point to consider how the world
The Long View 2009-03-27: The Government of Exotic Space John J. Reilly continues to offer up bon mots. Here is John sounding a bit like Patrick McKenzie on cryptocurrencies: The space in which the financial system functions is not physical but mathematical. The various markets are an ensemble of virtual spaces, some of which have grown larger and more
The Long View 2009-03-20: The Iron Laws of History (Annotated) John posted some bangers here: ...Hegel did retain the memory that the state was not merely a fence to keep out the state of nature, but a positive expression of the higher potentialities of human sociality. It is possible to imagine a state whose citizens are entities among whom violence
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