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The Long View: The New Absolutes

This twenty-year old essay is topical this week, with the defenestration of James Damore from Google. I've said several times that the cultural Left won the culture war in the United States, at least insofar as they hold more power to impose their ideas than the Right at

The Long View 2005-08-30: Corrections & Short Reviews

John didn't follow Harry Potter closely, but he guessed the shape of the story pretty well. Corrections & Short Reviews Disturbing information about John Roberts, President Bush's nominee for the United States Supreme Court, was revealed in a frontpage New York Times story on Monday. The

Linkfest 2017-08-09

Patrice O'Neal explains why Radiohead's Creep speaks to the white soul I can't argue with this. Meet Alex, the Russian Casino Hacker Who Makes Millions Targeting Slot In the grand tradition of Ed Thorp, a Russian mathematician figured out how to beat the house.

The Long View 2005-08-26: A Walk on the Blind Side

Twelve years later, the HELLADS system is still in development. The press release cited by CNN below said it would operational by 2007. Hah. With the recent sabre-rattling between the United States and North Korea, both the utility of such a system for the US [defense against countries too poor

The Long View 2005-08-23: The Perfection of the Species

The image in the header is the image John referenced in his joke about contributing to the state of perpetual surveillance. The man in the image is Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, scourge of the Boers and one of the few generals who thought the Great War would be long.

The Long View 2005-08-17: Bananas & World Domination

It would appear that John won this bet: I would give Bill better odds at the Secretary Generalship than I would Hillary for president. Bananas & World Domination Forget global warming; here's an ecological crisis you can get your teeth into: the We are also told that this

The Long View 2005-08-12: The Discouverie of Witchcraft

I wish I had remembered this post when Spotted Toad made this excellent analysis of why Harry Potter has become a political myth. The Discouverie of Witchcraft The fear expressed by many Christian groups about the influence of occult and Gnostic ideologies on popular culture is by no means ill