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The Long View: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited Edited by John Matthews

This is a follow-up and a reconsideration of an earlier work on the relationship between the Rosicrucian movement and the subsequent flowering of scientific inquiry in Europe. In short, Francis Yates’ argument was that the Royal Society, and other organs of the Enlightenment were the fruits of a millenarian movement

The Long View 2007-06-21: Immigration and Rotten Boroughs; Zero Population Growth Anachronism; NASA's Greatest Triumph; No Black Holes; Global Warming Plan B

Here is a case of John should have checked the numbers and didn’t: No, the problem is not "too many people": Japan and California are roughly the same size, but Japan has four times as many people as California and is substantially richer. In part, CAPS is

The Long View 2007-06-18: Third Party Platform; War without End; Disillusionment & Global Warming

John J. Reilly recommended that any third party or attempted realignment of American politics attempt to recreate something of the New Deal, which matches up pretty well with this chart from 2016. What goes by the name populism is often an attempt to move a nation’s politics toward the

The Long View 2007-06-15: Jesus, Mahony & Neuhaus on Immigration; Tradition Unmasked Again!

The Neuhaus-Mahony argument preserved here is much like the current Caplan-Jones argument. Jesus, Mahony & Neuhaus on Immigration; Tradition Unmasked Again! The immigration issue has gone from disturbing to weird: the leadership of the Senate really is going to try to revive the abolish-the-border immigration bill. (Perhaps that characterization seems

The Long View: On the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith and his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [Amazon link] often serves as a shorthand for current opinions in economics that favor lighter, or even no regulations on economic activity. That isn’t wholly unwarranted, but it is also worth trying to appreciate

The Long View 2007-06-10: Extreme Immigration Measures; Wishful Thinking on Real Estate

This collection of hollow reassurances from 2007 that there wasn’t a real estate bubble are quite a gem. 1. The Sky isn't falling. The real estate market always fluctuates.... [Barometric pressure fluctuates, too. That's one of the ways to tell that a hurricane is coming.

The Long View 2007-06-05: American Green Zone; Snooperphones; Plagiarising Bees; Manufactured Meat; European Extinction Conference

Here is an early war on terror idea that I am thankful never materialized: In such times, the principle of "every man his own cop" is insufficient. We must look to the day when every man is his own bomb squad: American cell phones can already check e-mail,