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The Long View 2006-03-03: Proscriptions and Shields

Political proscription is a feature of the late Roman Republic I hope we don't see, but we might, if history rhymes. I do worry a bit that you tend to hear this more and more. I had forgotten this bit from Jody Bottum, who had taken over the

The Long View: The Menace of Multiculturalism in America

Seeing this book had a foreword by Dinesh D'Souza, who has descended into hackery in the twenty years since this review was written, made me think of the fantastic Twitter exchange above. The book John reviews here isn't very good, but his discussion of the issues

The Long View 2005-06-15: Conspiracy, China, and the Defenestration of the Clercs

Lots of fun stuff in this blog post from just over twelve years ago. Gordon Chang is still wrong, of course, but why is really the more interesting question. I don't believe Gordon Chang's predictions of doom for China, but I also don't believe

The Long View: The Politics of Meaning

I don't think I can improve on this concluding paragraph. The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism By Michael Lerner Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996 $24.00, 355 pages ISBN: 0-201-47966-4 The '60s Left Tries God Remember back in 1993 when First

The Long View 2005-02-03: The State of the Union 2005

If President George W. Bush presented the 2003 Iraq War as just one campaign in a larger conflict, I suppose he was right. But I don't think we got exactly what he meant. The State of the Union 2005 That was a very strong speech the president gave

The Long View: Downsizing Is Easy; Government Is Hard

When I turned 18, I registered as a libertarian. Then I found out how weird most libertarians are, and I switched back to mainstream American politics. Joking aside, a big philosophical difference that I have with libertarianism is the idea that government, as such, is evil. This is an idea

The Long View 2005-01-30: Defeats, Victories, Miracles, Chimeras, Fashion Protocol

We are lucky President George W. Bush's privatization of social security never got anywhere. That combined with the housing bubble could have been genuinely revolutionary, in the howling mob kind of way. Defeats, Victories, Miracles, Chimeras, Fashion Protocol National Public Radio this morning took care to remind its