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Linkfest 2018-08-28

Population Immiseration in America I've got a draft on wages over time in the wings now, but Peter Turchin has some great graphs in this article. Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like a Cartoonish Painting on the Floor I think a previous linkfest included an

The Long View 2006-10-13: Eurasia Spotting; Zombie Watch; Looking for Character

Just today, David French wrote a piece for the Atlantic, "America Soured on My Multiracial Family", in an odd coincidence with John Reilly's ponderings from 2006 about Madonna and other celebrities adopting African children. Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie also come to mind. French is hurt

The Long View 2006-10-11: Springtime for Doomsday; Mainstream Crusade; Tridentine Indult; Idomeneo; Secure Yourself

A Canticle for Leibowitz is one of the few Catholic apocalyptic novels. It remains one of my favorites, because of how seriously, and how imaginatively, Miller took Catholic doctrine. Will Wilson's brutal tweet about the online LARPing of Catholic space empires is on point, and the best response

Phone Call with a Fish Book Review

Phone Call with a Fish by Silvia Vecchini, illustrated by Sualzo 48 pages Published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (September 5, 2018) ISBN 978-0802855107 I received this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. Phone Call with a Fish is a delightful book about a little

The Long View 2006-10-10: Remove Barriers; Shoot the Hostage; Breed Like Rabbits

Here is something to ponder. New York City took down its post-9/11 vehicle barriers, intended to prevent truck bombings and the like, in 2006. Ten years after that, European cities have added them. Of course, the state of the art changed quite a bit. Truck bombings take hard work

The Long View: Populism and the Mirror of Democracy

It has been a while since I've put up one of the orphan posts written by John J. Reilly that he didn't explicitly call out in his main blog. This one is from 2005, and originally appeared in the journal Democratization. John used the line, “The