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The Long View 2003-12-03: The Lullaby of Big Brother

I am sorry to say that John Reilly got me reading Belmont Club in about 2003. What can I say? I was young and naive. Wretchard [Richard Fernandez] was a huge booster of the second Iraq War, and a tireless apologist for President George W. Bush. As commenter Pat Bryan

The Long View 2003-11-20: Snappy Answers

John's 2003 ponderings about Mars in this post and the last are fortuitous, since I just reviewed the Martian by Andy Weir. This is exactly the kind of thing that got me interested in science, and directed me to physics as a field of study. Planetary science has

LinkFest 2016-02-26

This link fest has been long delayed, so it got extra big. Enjoy! How to Construct the Ultimate Conspiracy Theory An interview with Tim Powers about how he researches his novels, and other fun things. America's Top Five Mistakes in Iraq John Schindler at XX Committee reviews what

The Long View 2003-10-20: Real Reasons

This reminder of Pope John Paul II in his declining years makes for an interesting counterpoint to his successor, Benedict XVI. Each faced increasing age and debility; each selected a different way of responding to it. I think each way has its merits. The argument John makes here that the

The Long View 2003-10-15: Irrealistic Adventures

Since it is primary season in the US, you can form your own opinions as to whether any of the current candidates are likely to pursue 'irrealistic' adventures in the Middle East. Irrealistic Adventures Harold Bloom himself has made an appropriately autumnal endorsement of Wesley Clark for president.

The Long View: Winning Modern Wars

I might have said General Wesley Clark dropped out of the public eye because he is a throwback to a bygone era, but the popularity of Bernie Sanders belies that idea. Maybe he is just the wrong kind of throwback, the militaristic liberal of the mid twentieth century that complicates

The Long View 2003-09-24: Whose Quagmire?

At the time, you could actually rely on the news to paint a rosy picture of Iraq. The fundamental problem, then as now, is that the English-language media have too much dependence on people they can talk to. Reporting on the Arab Spring had the same problem. John brings up