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The Long View 2006-08-18: The Endings of Various Epochs

I learned a lot reading Matti Friedman's Pumpkinflowers, once I finally got around to it [it sat in my to-read pile for two years]. The suicide bombings started shortly after the Lebanese occupation was over, and then the security checkpoints installed to stop the bombers led to missile

Pumpkinflowers Book Review

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (2016) $25.95 paperback; 243 pages ISBN 978-1616204587 I received this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers Program. This is a book in three parts. First, we have the account of an ordinary

The Long View 2003-11-12: Doomsday matters

Fortunately, many of the people who hate America the most are also the most incompetent. Also, Israel is far more serious than us about policing their borders. Which is why we haven't had to deal with the awful spectacle that would result from a terrorist attack on the

The Long View 2002-02-11: The American Prerogative

The Long View 2002-02-11: The American Prerogative

This is another short one. I'll copy the whole thing here again, because it illustrates some interesting points in John's thinking, and some interesting developments in the last decade. Kyoto HoaxThe Kyoto Protocols were an unenforceable hoax, and it is good someone finally said so. By

The Long View 2002-02-07: The Irrelevance of Peace

This entry of John's blog is pretty short, and pretty pithy, so I'm just going to copy the whole thing here. John Derbyshire, unlike John Reilly, is rather a pessimist; John Reilly described himself as an inveterate optimist, and the mission of his blog was to