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The Long View 2008-09-07: Some Notes on the American Political Major-Party Conventions of 2008

John J. Reilly gives us some solid grounding here in the foundations of cyclical theories of history, and also provides his assessment of why neither American party has been able to create a durable governing order akin to the New Deal. This essay is highly recommended. Some Notes on the

Linkfest 2021-01-08: Stop Motion

The Economic System of Corporatism A fascinating look at the New Deal and its foundations. The Long View 2006-07-24: Defeat the People; Eurasianism = Bandung Related to the link above on Corporatism, John J. Reilly often used the term “war socialism” to describe the kind of economy used by all the

The Long View 2007-06-18: Third Party Platform; War without End; Disillusionment & Global Warming

John J. Reilly recommended that any third party or attempted realignment of American politics attempt to recreate something of the New Deal, which matches up pretty well with this chart from 2016. What goes by the name populism is often an attempt to move a nation’s politics toward the

The Long View 2007-04-13: Sunspots, Christian Europe, Boomsday, Perpetual Peace

Something John J. Reilly talks about in this post, and something that was really common post 9/11, was the idea that Europeans who were failing to reproduce themselves would be replaced by immigrants from places that had not yet undergone the demographic transition. Much of this was, overwrought, at

The Long View 2006-07-24: Defeat the People; Eurasianism = Bandung

I will note that pretty much nothing came out of any of the 2006 political movements mentioned in this post. Defeat the People; Eurasianism = Bandung The Wicked Spengler at Asia Times reminds us today that the people, united, have often been defeated: Conventional armies can defeat guerrilla forces with broad

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! Book Review

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I by Richard Ned Lebow Palgrave MacMillan, 2014 241 pages ISBN 978-1-137-27853-1 I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. As part of my Lenten penance this year, I am choosing to work through

The Long View: America Alone

If the National Intelligence Council really predicted that the EU will collapse by 2020, their prediction is looking like a real long shot at this point. Maybe that is why DARPA funded Philip Tetlock's superforecaster project: to improve the accuracy of things like this. To be fair, if