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The Long View: Saturday

I hadn't know that Huntington's affected saccadic eye movements. Saturday: A Novel By Ian McEwan Doubleday, 2005 289 Pages, US$26.00 ISBN 0-385-51180-9 Don't get me wrong: this is a serious, gripping book, which succeeds like few other contemporary novels in linking ordinary

The Long View 2005-05-05: British Elections; Multiple Horrors; Theodicy

I have a pending book review on Tim Powers' Earthquake Weather where I will claim that Powers wrote a theodicy. British Elections; Multiple Horrors; Theodicy By the time you read this, we will probably already know whether a Labor government has been returned in the UK, and more specifically,

The Long View: Blink

It is pretty easy to make fun of Malcolm Gladwell, but his star isn't riding as high as it did ten years ago, so I won't pile on at this point. Gladwell did a good job writing books that were really popular, and that is worthy

The Long View: How to Prevent a Civil War

This post by John Reilly is again relevant with the recent 9-0 decision by the Supreme Court to allow part of President Trump's travel ban to take effect. If you believe John's analysis from 21 years ago, this is to be expected from a Court that

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: