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The Long View 2007-04-02: Saecula, Bismarck & Lincoln, House of Lords

The 1860s were a peculiar decade. You saw the US Civil War, the formation wars of the German Empire, the War of the Triple Alliance in South America that killed something like 70% of all men in Paraguay, and the Taiping Rebellion in China that killed something like 15%-20%

The Long View 2007-03-30: Human Nature, Human Rights, Iranian Motives, Goodbye Bees

This is a fun one: I hadn’t remember that John J. Reilly referenced Greg Cochran and John Hawks in 2007. John also mentions a fairly standard criticism of any attempt to understand human behavior in terms of evolution, the Just So Stories of Kipling. It is sometimes true that

The Long View 2007-03-28: AI Marketing; Chant before Swine; WWDD; The Night Vision; Lafferty!

John J. Reilly makes a statement here that I readily agree with, but is probably highly non-obvious to almost everyone: As I have remarked before, "What Would Darwin Do?" may soon become a more potent bracelet inscription than "What Would Jesus Do?" For most public-policy questions,

The Long View 2007-03-22: Conrad Black, Biblical Literacy, the No-State Solution, Theology in the Air

This paragraph contains a line that has echoed in my mind for more than a decade now: This item caught my eye, however, because I am already taking the professor's advice: as an exercise for Lent, I am reading the whole Bible. I started on the New Testament

The Long View 2007-03-15: Global Warming and Conversation Stoppers

This bit is particularly funny now that “conversation” has started to have the meaning “I talk and you listen” in politics. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton officially rescinded her bid for president at an Iowa campaign appearance Saturday..."America, you spoke clearly and with conviction—and I listened. And so

The Long View: The Enemy at Home

I’m not sure it was even fair in 2007 to describe Dinesh D’Souza like this: Dinesh D’Souza, a noted public policy expert now resident at the Hoover Institution But by now, it is clear that D’Souza is a hack, but at least he maintains a reasonable

The Long View 2007-03-12: Several Small Matters and a Large One

A common theme in theories [or future histories] that posit the formation of a universal state in the next hundred years or so is that they almost always also posit a re-unification of Christianity. Since the schisms between the apostolic churches are often at least related to jurisdictional differences in