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The Long View 2005-05-02: Human Mice; Roe Misapprehension; Gödel versus Immanence

I remember being struck by this story when it came out. If your human-mice hybrids start acting too human, the obvious solution is to just kill them all! Human Mice; Roe Misapprehension; Gödel versus Immanence No, deranged scientists are not trying to create human-mouse hybrids that have squeaky voices and

Cheap Houses in Tokyo

Following this thread from Twitter: To Steve Sailer's post on the subject, where one of the comments pointed to this Youtube video: Land in Edogawa is 29,000,000 yen per square meter, which comes out to $3200 per square meter, or about $300 per square foot. Pretty

The Long View 2005-04-28: China; Quagmire; My Folly

Contra John Reilly's prediction here: Gordan Chang is still wrong. China; Quagmire; My Folly Anyone in immediate need of a theory of the post-communist world, past and future, should take a look at David Brooks's column in today's New York Times, Mourning Mother Russia:

The Long View 2005-04-26: Exploding Pet Peeves

When Pope Benedict XVI was elected, many European and American Catholics reacted with dismay, because Joseph Ratzinger was so conservative. Except that he really wasn't. Ratzinger had taken his job at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith very seriously, but he was not particularly extreme. Rather,

The Long View: How Abortion Builds Better Families

I was going to say that John missed the big picture on replacing AFDC with TANF in the late 90s: Chronic, mass illegitimacy is a product of the lifestyle of the population that has become dependent on AFDC. If the program is removed or modified, there might be a temporary

Linkfest 2017-06-23

The Stock Market Speaks: How Dr. Alchian Learned to Build the Bomb Sometimes public information is the best spy you have. I saw a series of Tweets this week about how the boss-class is sticking it to workers, usually with the active involvement of the political Left. You expect that

The Long View 2005-04-24: Sleepers: Issues & Diets

Under my heading nothing ever changes, we have this prescient post from John Reilly in 2005 where he correctly intuits that immigration will be the largest domestic political problem across the West. He also notes that the character of the problem is quite different in different places, since the typical