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The Long View 2008-04-07: Soviet America; McCain & Conservatism; Charlton Heston & History

Here is a fun bit of history from John J. Reilly: We should remember that the USSR was not a welfare state, no more than an army is a welfare state. Social provision in the USSR was supposed to be universal, but this was not usually accomplished directly by state

The Long View 2008-03-10: Tax Farming & Health Insurance; Obamalypse; Islam an Empty Vessel?

John J. Reilly was a long-time advocate of a single-payer healthcare system in the United States. His view was predicated upon healthcare being a public good, not a public right, and frankly acknowledging that it is a system of transfer payments from the young and healthy to the unwell. However,

The Long View 2008-01-31: Protean Robotics; Deposit insurance & Health Insurance; The Resurrection of McCain

The Disney adaption of Big Hero 6 [Amazon link] did in fact feature protean microbots, but also did not use that term. There is a bit of meat here on John J. Reilly’s idea for turning American healthcare into a public utility. Not a right, but a public good.

The Long View 2008-01-17: METI; Boltzmann; Benedict's Editors; Union of the West; NATO Slacks; A Defense of the Rotten Borough

Lots of items of interest in this blog post from John J. Reilly, but addressed very briefly. * The interaction between SETI and the transhumanism latent [well, latent in 2008] in libertarianism * Old man shakes fist at cloud, I mean John complains about the depth of a liberal education that cannot

The Long View 2007-09-18: Xenopathy; Episcopal Tyranny; Be Well

Back to our regularly scheduled program. This in an interesting post, and one of a thread of arguments on healthcare that strongly influenced me. The occasion was John commenting on a plank in Hilary Clinton’s presidential platform that is very much like what the Affordable Care Act turned out

The Long View 2007-08-24: The Sublimity of Bush; Health Care Misdirection; Immigration & Bubbles

I read a lot of David Warren, because John read him. Much like John, David later came to regret some of his enthusiasm for the Iraq War, and retreated to a life of prayer and contemplation, much like Benedict XVI. Warren’s quote here reminds me of my youth, when

The Long View 2007-01-09: Anti-Freeze Life; Ethical Racket; Charles Fort Lives; Towards Universal Health Care; Steyn on Russia

John Reilly had a minor sideline in Fortean phenomena, named after Charles Fort, strange and uncanny events sometimes described as being outside of what science can explain, but often better seen as low frequency events that are difficult to describe. In that vein, the recent juvenile humpback whale found in