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The Long View: Populism and the Mirror of Democracy

It has been a while since I've put up one of the orphan posts written by John J. Reilly that he didn't explicitly call out in his main blog. This one is from 2005, and originally appeared in the journal Democratization. John used the line, “The

The Long View 2006-10-06: Deus Vult; Foley Fake; Friedman's Folly; Times Hoax; Abortion & Medical Ethics

If anything, the deus vult memeing has only gotten more intense in the last twelve years. Deus Vult; Foley Fake; Friedman's Folly; Times Hoax; Abortion & Medical Ethics An old friend called a few days ago to ask me to refresh his memory about the First Crusade. What

The Long View 2006-10-05: Fratricide; Mutiny; Eurasianism for Americans; Steyn's Reservations; Neologisms

The mid-2000s idea that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan would start to influence the course of public affairs never did come to much. There was the idea that bitter combat veterans might form the nucleus of anti-government groups, later advanced by Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security. There

The Long View 2006-10-03: Religious Studies; Humans versus Homo Sapiens

This is perhaps the most profound thing John J. Reilly ever said: kindshave I I ponder this all the time, and the critical distinction he makes here just gets better with age. Clear terms enable clear thinking. Religious Studies; Humans versus Homo Sapiens Your degree in Religious Studies is not

The Long View 2006-09-26: Theocons; 2012; Christians & Muslims; Respectable Eurasianism

Kinds of minimalist geopolitics have long been advocated in the United States by learned and thoughtful men. George Kennan, in his essay "The Sources of Soviet Conduct", had observed there were “only five centres of industrial and military power in the world which are important to us from

The Long View 2006-09-25: Evangelism at Home; Steyn No. 1; Papal Success; Gibson's Maya; NYT Ad

This list of influential conservatives from 2006 is mostly interesting now to see who has dropped into obscurity, and who has managed to cling to their livelihood for another decade. I'm not sure it has much to do with accuracy or prescience. I've considered calculating a

The Long View 2006-09-20: Republicans Less Doomed; Matters of Interpretation

In 2006, the Democrats had big gains in the mid-term elections, a state that lasted until 2010, when the House swung strongly Republican. As John noted here, no American political party has managed to assemble a stable coalition since the end of the New Deal era. Republicans Less Doomed; Matters