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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2004-02-25: The Marriage Amendment; Inflation; O'Rourke

As it turns out, Obergefell v. Hodges was decided on equal protection grounds. Again, while the Left decisively won the Culture War, I think the Right will continue to resist for a long time. Roe v. Wade was 43 years ago now, and the Right has very much not given

LinkFest 2016-05-28

Unplugging the Colorado River Here is something that should give you pause: without Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the biggest city on the west coast of the United States would be either San Francisco [population 864,000] or Seattle [population 608,000]. Even if you include the metro areas of

The Long View 2004-02-23: Popular Gothic

Dan Brown is far from my favorite author, but my hat is off to him for knowing his audience. It sure as hell wasn't me, but my tastes tend to be niche. However, it took a man like John to compare and contrast Tom Clancy's environmental

The Long View: A Culture of Conspiracy

The world of conspiracy theories is a strange one. If anything, a lack of proof, or even disproof, only makes them more popular. There are a lot of durable memes that came out of the 1990s, things like the New World Order, or the Men in Black. Hollywood helped, and

The Long View: Rainbow Six

These were the only two of Tom Clancy's books that John reviewed. I was in a big Tom Clancy phase at the time John wrote these, so I found the reviews interesting. They hold up well. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998

LinkFest 2016-05-20

The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much Colleges and universities provide an incredible array of services today. They aren't free. Why Doesn't Personality Psychology Have A Replication Crisis? In part, because it is boring. In practice, that is a synonym for successful. John McAfee and

The Long View: Executive Orders

Here is a link to the Oliver Stone review of Executive Orders that motivated John to read the book. I find the Stone review kind of funny, especially this: As usual, some of the Clancy plotting is fiendishly inventive, and he has a technically sharp command of the realistic detail,