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The Long View 2004-05-31: The Great Evangel of the Terrorist Leeches

Here, John Reilly talks briefly about the aging of China's population due to the slowdown in the birth rate. The line I still remember is: ...China will get old before it gets rich. Parts of China have certainly gotten very rich indeed, although the interior remains rural and

LinkFest 2015-09-30

Wow, it has been a long time since I did a LinkFest, so here is one delayed 7 weeks. 48 Hours on the Dark Side of Vegas This reminds me of the hidden desperation in Tim Power's Last Call. Is the U.S. behind Fethullah Gulen? Not as

The Long View: The Black Sun

Raiders of the Lost ArkThe idea that the Nazis were into the occult has become a widely popular idea. When Indiana Jones battles Nazis for the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail, no one needs any backstory to make this plausible. We just all accept it and move

The Long View 2002-03-01: The European Constitutional Convention

Just today I read an article featuring a prediction about the future of the EU by Emmanuel Todd, a prominent French anthropologist. Todd is known for his work on Anglo-American exceptionalism, particularly in how families are viewed differently in England, Denmark, Brittany, the Netherlands, and parts of Norway. However, despite

The Long View: The Death of the West Book Review

I think it was John who taught me the idea, "things that can't go on forever, don't". Demography is a pretty good example of this. A lot of ink has been spilt in the last hundred years agonizing over both why too many people