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The Long View 2008-01-14: Bush & Gog; Hillary Found Out; What Damian Thompson did not expect; Variant Korans

Apparently the comfy chair did not dissuade Damian Thompson from his muckraking ways. Bush & Gog; Hillary Found Out; What Damian Thompson did not expect; Variant Korans Many persons hold President Bush in light esteem, but few actually identify him with Antichrist or his precursors. Nonetheless, that is the gist

The Long View 2008-01-10: Education for Failure & Fraud; Fort the Postmodernist; V-Objects; Yes We Can (Again); Taxes v. Contributions

John J. Reilly quotes Stefan Theil’s “Europe’s Philosophy of Failure”, but didn’t comment [in 2008] on this very neo-liberal declaration that catches my eye [in 2020]: In France and Germany, students are being forced to undergo a dangerous indoctrination. Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free

The Long View 2009-01-09: Hillary Taking Names; Stratfor is Optimistic; The Union of the West

John J. Reilly speculates here about a Holy Roman Empire style arrangement for world government: not a state, but a system of dispensing justice. Such a system would preserve the genuine benefits of international cooperation, but avoid directly ruling the various states within in it. Hillary Taking Names; Stratfor is

The Long View 2008-01-08: Self-Piloted Vehicles; Slaves & Servants; FDR on the Volga; Ceausescu in New Hampshire

John J. Reilly correctly notes the value of self-driving cars, especially the urbanist’s dream of eliminating parking from the city, although he didn’t phrase it that way. However, it is very funny to me to read this optimistic forecast from GM about how they could field autonomous cars

The Long View 2008-01-04: Lizards, Airships, Caucuses

Airships of all varieties are one of those things that seem to provide endless clickbait, as the relatively recent article I linked in the image demonstrates. Nothing of note has happened in the intervening years to make airships a thing again, but articles about it are hardy perennials. Whenever you

The Long View 2008-01-03: Warren on Dynasties; Sarkozy on God; Steyn on Trial; Nations on the Downslope

There is a fascinating bit here at the end of John J. Reilly’s blog post about how current “independence” movements are always really “dependence“ movements, as the states in question never have any ability to function or defend themselves without a more powerful sponsor. This can happen recursively, for

The Long View 2008-01-01: Happy New Year: Thanks & Advisories; The Mark of Soros; Uninformed Predictions

And so we come to a new year of John J. Reilly’s blog. As was usual for John on New Year’s Day, he issued some predictions. His 2008 predictions were unusually bad: The subprime-loan question is starting to look like the Enron scandal: an important story that has