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The Long View: The Irish Empire

One of John's original compositions, an imaginative bit of alternative history that puts Ireland in the place of Britain as the exporter of European civilization. This story features one of John's stranger ideas, homo sapiens who are not human, and also one of his funnier ones,

The Big U Book Review

The Big U Book Review

NOT American MegaversityI picked up The Big U while I was organizing my library, and I decided to see if I still liked it ten years [at least] since the last time I had read it. It turns out, I do! For me, this is the perfect college satire, on

The Long View: President H. P. Lovecraft

The Long View: President H. P. Lovecraft

Since I just watched Amazon's pilot episode of the Man in the High Castle, I'm in an alternative history mood. Why vote for the lesser evil? Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu. I would like to thank the many kind people from several

The Long View: Why Bill Clinton Should Resign

John wrote this seventeen years ago. When he re-posted it in in the sidebar of his post of October 10th, 2002, he said this: Here is an old essay recommending President Clinton's resignation. How well has my reasoning aged, I wonder? I wasn't old enough to

The Long View 2002-10-10: Diversions & Obfuscations

It seems like John was dancing around an idea here that I want to expand upon. Near the end of the piece, he says: On 911, the least of calamities occurred. There was an attack on American soil, but the state sponsor was weak; it did not have the ability

The Long View 2002-10-03: Jersey Joke

Here is a bit on local Jersey politics and election law. Reproduced for completeness. Jersey Joke I have never been good with off-the-cuff witticisms, but I am rather proud of this exchange from many years back: Tactful New Yorker Lifelong New Jersey Resident: "If we were sensitive, we would

The Long View 2002-09-26: Strange Forms of Life

The internal politics of the Right in the United States have been strange. For most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Right has struggled for respectability without achieving it. Or at least that is how it seems now. It is worth remembering that this has not always been true