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The Long View: On the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith and his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Amazon link] often serves as a shorthand for current opinions in economics that favor lighter, or even no regulations on economic activity. That isn’t wholly unwarranted, but it is also worth trying to appreciate

The Long View 2007-06-10: Extreme Immigration Measures; Wishful Thinking on Real Estate

This collection of hollow reassurances from 2007 that there wasn’t a real estate bubble are quite a gem. 1. The Sky isn't falling. The real estate market always fluctuates.... [Barometric pressure fluctuates, too. That's one of the ways to tell that a hurricane is coming.

The Long View 2007-06-05: American Green Zone; Snooperphones; Plagiarising Bees; Manufactured Meat; European Extinction Conference

Here is an early war on terror idea that I am thankful never materialized: In such times, the principle of "every man his own cop" is insufficient. We must look to the day when every man is his own bomb squad: American cell phones can already check e-mail,

The Reservist Book Review by J. R. Handley with Jason Anspach and Nick Cole

Sometimes, the greatest burden is on the men who made it home. With Veterans Day/Armistice Day today, J. R. Handley’s The Reservist [Amazon link] is a fine work to remind us of the horror and stupidity of war, and also why the men who went through it on

The Long View 2007-06-01: The Culture Wars and Immigration

The mid- to late-2000s was the point in time where opposition to immigration to the United States came to be associated with racism. As political science grad student Zach Goldberg notes, much of the change in expressed attitudes come from white liberals, while the rest of the country hasn’t

The Long View 2007-05-30: The Nuclear Freeze; Pakistan; the Latin Mass; Spelling Bees

SS-20s always make me think of the Chevy Chase/Dan Ackroyd movie Spies Like Us. The Nuclear Freeze; Pakistan; the Latin Mass; Spelling Bees The proposal to set a date certain for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq has wide support among the political establishment. Maybe it's

The Long View: A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

Now that #Brexit might finally be upon us, here is a prescient book review from 2007 about the peculiar philosophy that made it possible more than a decade later. I am afraid this book is an example of a peculiar deleterious effect that the European Union has had on conservatism