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The Long View: Why Bill Clinton Should Resign

John wrote this seventeen years ago. When he re-posted it in in the sidebar of his post of October 10th, 2002, he said this: Here is an old essay recommending President Clinton's resignation. How well has my reasoning aged, I wonder? I wasn't old enough to

The Long View 2002-10-10: Diversions & Obfuscations

It seems like John was dancing around an idea here that I want to expand upon. Near the end of the piece, he says: On 911, the least of calamities occurred. There was an attack on American soil, but the state sponsor was weak; it did not have the ability

The Long View 2002-10-03: Jersey Joke

Here is a bit on local Jersey politics and election law. Reproduced for completeness. Jersey Joke I have never been good with off-the-cuff witticisms, but I am rather proud of this exchange from many years back: Tactful New Yorker Lifelong New Jersey Resident: "If we were sensitive, we would

The Long View 2002-09-26: Strange Forms of Life

The internal politics of the Right in the United States have been strange. For most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Right has struggled for respectability without achieving it. Or at least that is how it seems now. It is worth remembering that this has not always been true

The Long View 2002-08-29: What Kind of Nation

The little vignettes of early American politics John provides here are kind of charming. There is a sense in which we are still parochial in that kind of way, but I feel like it is fading fast. John got his prediction about three-quarters right here. At least the first phase

The Long View 2002-08-22: Omens of the Last Days

John made a couple of interesting points here. First, American privilege in the world probably isn't what you think it is. In the case cited here, we use our control of the global financial system to force Swiss banks and German corporations to comply with our demands regarding

The Long View 2002-08-01: War Plans

John has been definitely refuted here by the events that followed not only the downfall of the Baathist Iraqi state, but also Syria and Libya. Deposing Middle Eastern tyrants has shown us there are indeed worse evils. I suppose the one consolation we have is that while President George W.