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The Long View 2007-11-13: Holy Demographics; The Markets & The Surge; The Return of the Emperor of the Last Days; Federal Cases

That Jerry Pournelle and John J. Reilly were both of the opinion in 2007 that prison sentences were too harsh is a remarkable lost opportunity. Holy Demographics; The Markets & The Surge; The Return of the Emperor of the Last Days; Federal Cases Iran is spoiling for a fight with

The Long View 2007-11-06: New Jersey Election; The White Hart; Sox; Theopolitics; Mary Ann Glendon

John makes a reference here to his essay, “The Coming Age of Cathedrals”, written in 1997(!), but which seems prescient now. This is of course because millenarian thought is always with us, but John was talking about the 1970s instead of 2020 when he referenced “decaying cities, a ruthless ruling

The Long View 2007-11-04: President Emeritus; The Closing of the American Mind; The Decay of Atheism; Barzun Forever

Great books or a classical canon is very much an Anglosphere kind of thing. John J. Reilly was more interested in the canon which comprises the Old and New Testaments than in anything that came out of the University of Chicago. The creation of a classical canon is mostly a

The Long View 2007-10-31: Halloween Pandering; Sidney Reilly; Rational Choice; Dark Star Scandal

When I read this post the first time, I didn’t really see what John was getting at: The increasing incidence of zombies is not a good sign, I think. Vampires are evil (or penitent) and werewolves have pathos, but zombies are just meatpuppets. They do not imply a moral

The Long View 2007-10-28: The Fitness of Natural Selection; Macrohistory and Generations; The Decisive Lifetime

This is a pretty good case of a time when not looking at something quantitatively produces immense confusion. In the the case John J. Reilly mentions here, distinguishing between traits under selection and things that happen to be correlated with those traits, is something with a pretty robust theory behind

The Long View 2007-10-24: Parallel Universes; Doctor Who; The Purpose-Driven Hurricane; Thomas Friedman; The Final Bush Cover-Up.

Thanks to everyone who has supported the Long View re-posting project through my affiliate links! The posting will continue until morale improves. Parallel Universes; Doctor Who; The Purpose-Driven Hurricane; Thomas Friedman; The Final Bush Cover-Up. "Did I make something up?" asked the horrified Marvin the Paranoid Android in

The Long View 2007-10-19: God v. Kant; Democratic League; Talking Shops; Dr. Moreau; Premier Putin

John’s Thomist good sense is on display here: I am not much distressed by genetic chimeras. There is a human genome, but there is very little DNA that is specifically human. The whole point of molecular genetics is that different organisms use the same components. I’ve said similar