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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 Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton officially rescinded her bid for president at an Iowa campaign appearance Saturday..."America, you spoke clearly and with conviction—and I listened.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

The Long View 2007-03-09: Physics, Warrior Robots, Glottochronology, & Reforms Good and Bad

High-temperature superconductors are much like nanotechnology: just another kind of vaporware that has gone nowhere. I should probably update my cocktail party theory of why science can’t seem to do anything cool anymore on this in light of an additional ten years of experience. Also interesting to note that