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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

The Long View: Napoleon: A Political Life

Napoleon was one of the great figures of European history. This is a fine summary of his life. Napoleon: A Political Life By Steven Englund Scribner, 2004 592 Pages, $35.00 ISBN 0-684-87142-4 Several biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) have been published over the years. This one, by an American

The Long View 2004-12-13: McCain Ring; Perfect UN; Culture War Overseas; Chinese Bubble

I enjoyed a taste of Hillary Clinton's 2004 efforts to position herself as a future President: On immigration she has begun talking tough on border security, accusing the administration of not spending enough, employing enough people, using the best technology. She recently called herself "adamantly against illegal

The Long View 2002-11-02: The Gore Family

I found a blog entry that I missed from 2002. Which is unfortunate, because John makes the very interesting point here, often re-iterated, that the social and economic arrangements of the United States in the 1950s were unusual. They were intentionally unusual, and represented the pinnacle of 150 years of

The Long View 2004-11-18: You Can't Make This Stuff Up, But People Do Anyway

Unfortunately, Bush Derangement Syndrome has proven to be a permanent feature of American politics since 2004, with the object changing every so often. You Can't Make This Stuff Up, But People Do Anyway The expression "Bush Derangement Syndrome" seems to have been coined by Charles Krauthammer

The Long View 2004-10-18: Alternative Realities

This bit here about whichever party in the US happens to be out of power pretends that the party that won the last election is doomed and and mired in corruption and scandal has been the pattern since at least 1992. Since politicians often are involved and scandal and corruption,

The Long View 2004-10-14: The Third Debate & the Unmentionable Elephants in the Room

I always found John's stance on immigration pretty reasonable. I think this is a pretty good summary, in John's own words: ...almost every other domestic problem they discussed was a product of continuously high levels of immigration: downward pressure on wages; rising income inequality; the growing