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Veteran commenter Subforum rejoins the fray

Subforum posts this on the August 11th, 2007 The Long View blog: *Even when no litigable entitlement was at issue, the Great Society fostered the development of the acrimonious niche-politics that we call multiculturalism. The niches by their nature could not recognize a common good; the closest they could come

The Long View 2007-08-20: God's Politics

This is an amazing line: When you see an argument developing a vector as surprising as the vector this argument manifests, you know that it is under the gravitational influence of some ideological dark body. Also: Yes, the US has a "strong constitutional structure." In part, that is

The Long View 2007-08-11: The Lethal Insistence

John J. Reilly shifted his blog posts at the end of July 2007 away from commenting on current events, which in retrospect isn’t usually very interesting, and started doing more short reflections based what was happening. I think the improvement in his posts at this distance in time is

The Long View 2007-08-04: “What amazing ruins we are going to leave.”

John J. Reilly echoes [foreshadows?] here what the new urban design movement has been saying on Twitter: I do reflect on the fact that it was the pride of earlier bridge builders that there work was overdesigned. Actually, the first example I thought of in this connection was the Brooklyn

The Long View 2007-07-30: Summer Schedule, Beginning with John Lukacs

This isn’t one of John’s usual blog posts. It ends up something like a mini-book review of Five Days in London: May 1940 [Amazon link]. John approached the book as an opportunity for historical counterfactual, using the notes from the British Inner Cabinet. One of the things I

The Long View 2007-07-25: Depression, Revision, Imperative

With today’s coronavirus-inspired stock market plunge, we can look back at the last big market downturn via John’s blog post on the very first glimmerings of the housing bubble popping. Depression, Revision, Imperative It has been less than 20 years since the last time a really big real-estate

The Long View 2007-07-23: Failures of Imagination and the Beauty of Loyalty

John J. Reilly points to an old, old article by the very wrong David P. Goldman, who in all seriousness suggested the United States would foment conflict in the Middle East as some kind of Richelieu-inspired Grand Strategy. We did foment war, but I honestly think we blundered into it.