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The Long View 2008-11-02: The Inner Emigration

This blog post of John J. Reilly’s from the 2008 American presidential election should be a good reminder that the craziness of recent years is an extension of things that were already happening a decade ago. The Inner Emigration There are people who call me a barbarian because I

The Long View 2008-10-26: It's 1989 in America

I have no idea whether the alternative cover of The Village Voice that John Reilly mentions in this blog exists. It is probably one of those things that if it doesn’t exist, it should. This is another one of John’s attempts to synthesize his own work. There was

The Long View Re-publishing Project

Since February 13th of 2014, I have been reposting all of the online works of John J. Reilly, who died unexpectedly in 2012. Now, I am happy to announce the next phase, republishing John’s four books, which have become very hard to come by. My plan is to make

The Long View 2008-10-11: The Crystallization of the West and the Election of 2008

John J. Reilly here alludes to, but does not name, Modern Monetary Theory, the slightly batshit but so far unrefuted idea that countries which control their own money supply can spend, borrow, and tax without constraint of tax receipts. It sounds nuts. But it also keeps working. In much the

The Long View 2008-10-05: Dégringolade

The 1983 version of Modern Times that John J. Reilly recommends here can be picked up for $3 USD used on Amazon. I have read parts of Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People, but only seen snippets of the earlier and broader work. I don’t find

The Long View 2011-06-11: Notes on Afghanistan

Casey Cho pointed out to me that John J. Reilly had written something about a previous President’s plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan ten years ago. John’s strategic assessment is interesting. He makes an argument that as of 2011 the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were successes, with important

The Long View 2008-09-27: Mortgages and the Curse of the Fendahl

The episode that John J. Reilly references here is called “The Image of the Fendahl”, which is even embedded in the now dead link he had included. I think I can see why he called it “The Curse of the Fendahl” instead, as the titular alien species parasitized the people