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The Long View 2004-07-02: Fed; Buckley; Coral; Detention

In one of those fascinating coincidences, I just read an article by John Cochrane, the Grumpy Economist, today on what current economic theory thinks causes inflation. Best guess: they don't know. The theory used to link employment and inflation, but the post-housing bubble US economy didn't

The Long View 2004-06-28: Disaffected Persons

Here is a good example of the things that John ended being very, very wrong about. First, in his criticism of Tom Friedman, John says: The problem is not that the US exports fear. It's that the US has so far failed to rouse the thanatophilic international class

The Long View 2004-06-24: Trains; Rockets; Missionaries; Jousts

The relative merits of mass transit technologies often came up on John's blog. The thing he said that stuck with me the longest is: cars tend to eat their destinations. The example that always comes to mind for me is the endless parking lots around Disneyland. However, it

Soda Pop Soldier Book Review

Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole Harper Voyager, 2014 $4.99; 368 pages ISBN 978-006-221022-7 Nick Cole describes this book as "Ready Player One meets Call of Duty". I would wholeheartedly agree with that assessment. I would also recommend this book, at least to anyone with the same

LinkFest 2016-11-11

Veterans' Day Edition And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Why did Medieval Slave Traders go to Finland? At the time, Finns were neither Christian nor Muslim. Down and Out at Del Mar A great vignette of life on the bottom. A Lead-Crime Study Passes the Gelman Test

The Long View 2004-06-22: Al Qaeda's Candidate; Missing Cicadas; Transitory Opposition

Thanks to Mark Steyn for linking to yesterday's The Long View re-post. John Reilly's been gone four and a half years, but even in death he manages to keep up with current events. Here in June of 2004, John expresses some doubts about the existence of

The Long View 2004-06-04: Art Imitates Death

John references C. P. Snow's famous essay The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution in this post. While much has changed in the last sixty-seven years, much has also stayed the same. Most politicians in the English-speaking world continue to come from law, poli sci, and the social