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The Long View 2008-04-09: Entry Rights; WWZ film; Favorite Books; Quellos

John J. Reilly starts this entry off by looking at entry rights for migrants. Exit, with a capital E, the ability to leave whatever system you find yourself in, is an idea that is often contrasted with Voice, the attempt to change that system. In this case, the authors of

The Long View 2007-10-31: Halloween Pandering; Sidney Reilly; Rational Choice; Dark Star Scandal

When I read this post the first time, I didn’t really see what John was getting at: The increasing incidence of zombies is not a good sign, I think. Vampires are evil (or penitent) and werewolves have pathos, but zombies are just meatpuppets. They do not imply a moral

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 2007-06-29: Bush Saved; Roman Show Trials; The New Deal and Morale; Libertarian Military Premises; July 7

This blog post by John J. Reilly has an instructive analysis of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and why it worked. Specifically, John argues that it worked even though it failed by the metrics used by both Left and Right in the United States today: GDP growth and unemployment. The

The Long View 2007-06-25: The Holy Grail; The Precautionary Principle; Cryptozoology; The Collapse of Europe Conference; The Costs of the Immigration Bill

When I republish one of John J. Reilly’s The Long View blog posts, I usually try to find some parallel in current events, or link his comments into his greater oeuvre. But, sometimes this is a struggle. This post has been. In retrospect, John’s blogging was less interesting

The Long View 2007-06-18: Third Party Platform; War without End; Disillusionment & Global Warming

John J. Reilly recommended that any third party or attempted realignment of American politics attempt to recreate something of the New Deal, which matches up pretty well with this chart from 2016. What goes by the name populism is often an attempt to move a nation’s politics toward the