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The Long View: Robertson Davies on Spelling Reform

From "The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks" Penguin Books, 1996 Copyright (C) Robertson Davies, 1986 Page 434: Dear Miss Hawser: Your suggestion that a few people in Canada try to revive the lost art of letter-writing is a worthy one, and I am flattered that you should include me

Linkfest 2017-05-05

* The Man Who Invented Identity Politics for the New Right Steve Sailer is getting more attention. This probably isn't good attention, but what can you do? * The quiet but substantial successes of Abenomics I still don't understand macroeconomics, but I am trying. * The siren song of

The Long View: The Last Division: A History of Berlin 1945-1989

While Kennedy did say something that could have been seen as funny in his famous Berlin speech, if you watch video of the speech it is pretty clear the crowd didn't take it that way. I have a number of personal connections to Berlin that make this review

The Long View 2004-12-15: Good Ideas; Bad Reasons

I read State of Fear and I liked it. I also thought it was massively unfair. It was a fun story, given its premises. Taken as a flight of fantasy, it was a blast. If you think it was an unbiased representation of the facts.... Some of the action in

The Long View: Terrible Honesty

In passing, this is a pretty funny comment on my own review of The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise. The problem with the academic writers on the subject, he complained, was the same that bedeviled writers on Spanish history: both seemed to be infected by the insanity they were describing.

The Long View 2004-12-13: McCain Ring; Perfect UN; Culture War Overseas; Chinese Bubble

I enjoyed a taste of Hillary Clinton's 2004 efforts to position herself as a future President: On immigration she has begun talking tough on border security, accusing the administration of not spending enough, employing enough people, using the best technology. She recently called herself "adamantly against illegal

The Long View 2004-12-08: The Breeder Advantage

The Breeder Advantage is related to what Steve Sailer calls Affordable Family Formation. He started talking about this in 2004, at about the same time John posted this. It would be easy to just chalk this up to biology, but I think John Reilly's point is well taken: