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Benjamin Espen

The Long View 2004-01-28: New Hampshire; Mars; The Straits of Malacca; NGO Land

It is often the case that today's solutions are tomorrows problems. It is also often the case that yesterday's solutions are sometimes today's solutions too, although that implies we shall subsequently have yesterday's + 1 problems. So, for your reflection, in the portrait

LinkFest 2016-05-06

The 'white squatter camps' of post Apartheid South Africa The South African apartheid regime was memorably described as "socialism for the Afrikaners, capitalism for the English-speaking whites and Indians, and fascism for the blacks." Now that the boot is on the other foot, the Afrikaners and

The Long View 2004-01-24: More Catechesis

John here delves deeper into The Passion. Despite Gibson's personal flaws, the Passion isn't anti-Semitic. Yes, even though there has long been an undercurrent that insists on interpreting the Gospels this way. More Catechesis Here is a quick update to yesterday's exursion into the

The Long View 2004-01-23: Presidential Hostage-Taking; Sitzkrieg; Catechesis

John Reilly pooh-poohed a news report in 2004 linking Iran to al-Qaeda, but twelve years later, John Schindler, who was in the NSA at the time of 9/11, still wants to dig into the Iranian connection. Make of that what you will. John also pooh-poohed the ability of Special

The Long View 2004-01-21: The Iowa Caucuses and the State of the Union

What happened to Howard Dean in 2004 is what a lot of knowledgeable observers such as Nate Silver and Ross Douthat expected to happen to Donald Trump in 2015-16. What seems to have changed since 2004 is the Bushes lost control of the Republican party apparatus, and the Clintons have

The Long View 2004-01-19: My Platform

American politics just keeps getting stranger and stranger. President Obama made a Red Wedding joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner. One might hope he thinks of himself as Tywin Lannister rather than Walder Frey, Obama making a Game of Thrones joke about drone strikes in Pakistan at the #WHCD

LinkFest 2016-04-30

Titan's Great Lakes Appear to be Filled with Clear, Colorless Methane Hopefully we will be up to the task if any life is found on the moons of other planets. Why is Reaction Taboo? Any treatment of the rising right in either America or Europe needs to take