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LinkFest 2016-03-04

Liberal, Harsh Denmark Scandinavian welfare states work best when they stay largely Scandinavian. The Revolt of the Comedians: Tina Fey Edition When Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt came out, my wife said to me, "It is all one big race joke." How Trump Rules Twitter From the Twitter timeline of

The Long View 2002-10-02: Wellstone's Wake

It really is the conventional wisdom even now that lower turnout helps Republicans, but who now remembers that 2002 saw increased turnout in the midterms and a huge Republican victory? This was an occasion where John praised President George W. Bush for at least having some ideas of how to

The Long View 2002-09-19: Historical Accidents

In general, John was a cautious advocate of George W. Bush, but he wasn't a fool. The US will probably get its chance to change the regime in Iraq very soon. For myself, I am inclined to think that everyone is making a lot of fuss about a

The Long View 2002-07-25: An Unexpected Abyss

Baron Julius Evola This is where you will find John's real view of the Global War on Terror. It wasn't, and isn't, possible for any of the various counter-insurgencies, civil wars, and bush wars currently raging in the world to bring down the United

The Long View 2002-07-02: Innocence is no Excuse

John's specialty was business law: boring things like securities and the UCC. I can see why he turned to millennialism [kidding!]. In passing, he notes the securities law has a great deal more to do with regulation than legistation per se. This is true in my field as

Joel Kotkin on Zuckerberg et al.

Joel Kotkin at his website NewGeography finds Mark Zuckerberg's immigration enthusiam as self-interested as I do: Shady 1%This bit is especially good: Outsource Manufacturing, Import Engineers Perversely, the small number of jobs—mostly clustered in Silicon Valley—created by tech companies has helped its moguls avoid public

Measuring Wealth

Dennis Mangan has a short bit on what the fortune of Howard Hughes would have amounted to today, that spawned a couple of nice links. The 10 Richest Men of All Time Adjusted for inflation, John D. Rockefeller’s net worth is reportedly upwards of USD$ 663 billion. What was