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The Long View 2005-07-09: The Three Rings; Transformations & Transitions

John makes an argument here that would make its way into international prominence with the publication in 2015 of Michel Houellebecq's Submission. The Charlie Hebdo shooting on the day of its publication in France only enhanced Houellebecq's reputation [or notoriety.] I think John deserves credit for

LinkFest 2016-05-13

Turns out Friday the 13th falls on a Friday this year. The day we discovered our parents were Russian spies Spying is a daily reality in the world. 50 years on, one of Mao's 'little generals' exposes the horror of the Cultural Revolution Fortunately, Mao doesn&

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

The Long View 2003-10-03: Unusual Views

John Reilly mentions Gen. Wesley Clark in passing here. Clark has dropped out of the public eye, but it is probably worth remembering that Clark probably helped bring about one of the great, but unheralded successes of the United States in the Balkans in the 1990s, Operation Storm. Others were

The Long View: World War III

Vault Boy checking the size of a mushroom cloudIn the 1950s, there really wasn't any reason to be terrified of nuclear weapons. The Soviets had them, but they didn't have very many, and it took a long time for a bomber to fly across the Arctic

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