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The Long View 2005-12-19: Bush Speaks; Spengler Smirks; Aslan Roars

More tedious political crap from 2005. Bush Speaks; Spengler Smirks; Aslan Roars It is otiose, as a rule, for a blogger to quote Glenn Reynolds, since if you read any blogs at all you probably read his. Nonetheless, let me note for the record his take on President Bush'

The Long View 2005-12-02: Tradition, Optimism & Cartography

It is rather sad that John didn't live to see the rise of the tradinistas. He would have enjoyed pointing out they make the same arguments as Tradition. Tradition, Optimism & Cartography Over at First Things, Fr. Neuhaus has noted that there may be a contradiction between the

The Long View 2005-11-30: Won Wars; Lost Films & Doctrines

Here is a prediction that did not pan out: There is also this: Post-911 veterans are not Vietnam veterans. Their numbers are smaller, of course, but they are already an admired and self-confident minority. They will transform the military and, one suspects, domestic politics. At this point, it seems that

The Long View 2005-11-21: The Rally for Marshal Pétain

It was unfair of John to associate Lt. General William Odom with Marshal Pétain, although John did at least go out of his way to give Pétain some credit. In retrospect, Odom sounds like he was right. The Rally for Marshal Pétain As I have elsewhere had occasion to remark,

The Long View 2005-11-09: French Nuances

We are now back to our regularly scheduled programming. French Nuances Here's an occasion for a bit of Alternative History. Writing for the BBC in a piece entitled Violence exposes France's weaknesses, John Simpson offered this aside on the relationship between France's policy of

The Long View: America Alone

If the National Intelligence Council really predicted that the EU will collapse by 2020, their prediction is looking like a real long shot at this point. Maybe that is why DARPA funded Philip Tetlock's superforecaster project: to improve the accuracy of things like this. To be fair, if

The Long View: Saturday

I hadn't know that Huntington's affected saccadic eye movements. Saturday: A Novel By Ian McEwan Doubleday, 2005 289 Pages, US$26.00 ISBN 0-385-51180-9 Don't get me wrong: this is a serious, gripping book, which succeeds like few other contemporary novels in linking ordinary