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The Long View 2006-04-28: The Fermi Paradox; Atlas Shrugged; Oil Spike

Since John points to his 1996 essay on Noospheres here, I went and updated that essay with a table of contents and hyperlinks. I've always found the Drake equation to be something of a category mistake, but I at least appreciate people attempting to think things through. The

The Long View 2006-04-24: The Formation of Adjectives & the Obsolescence of Conservatism

I hadn't remembered that Spengler [David P. Goldman] had advocated in 2006 what would in a few years become the scam of relocating the urban poor away from valuable urban cores and dumping them on suburbs. This report about the Venus Express spaceprobe saddened me: [The European Space

The Long View 2006-04-20: Electoral College Reform; Zeitgeist & Conversion; Acis & Galatea

I've never quite been convinced that Electoral College reform will actually pan out to be a good idea, but John Reilly liked it. Electoral College Reform; Zeitgeist & Conversion; Acis & Galatea This is the best political reform proposal I have seen in a long time, ably summarized

The Long View 2006-04-18: Conspiracy Unmasked!

A few years ago, there was a movement on the fringes that called itself neo-reaction, or a variety of other things. This used to be the only places I ran into people who knew who Evola or Guénon were. I used to be amused when it was asserted C. S.

The Long View 2006-04-14: Good Friday

Since a lot of bollocks about Christ traditionally appears in Lent, and really ramps up in Holy Week, this is as good a time as any to remind everyone that the Gospels have withstood a century and a half of higher criticism, with the result that something much like the

The Long View 2006-04-10: The Iran War; Biography; The Truth about immigration

John Reilly said this in 2006, and I think he's still right: I am sure I am repeating myself, but there are just three things to keep in mind with regard to the immigration crisis: (1) The disposition of illegals currently in the country is almost irrelevant. (2)

The Long View 2006-04-05: Der Linkerstreit

Damon Linker continues to write some interesting things, occasionally sparring with Ross Douthat on Twitter. He is still mostly working the same beat as In 2006, arguing that the liberal state should keep religion at arms length, at least to judge from the title of his most recent book, The