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The Long View 2007-04-10: 2035; God & the Left

John uses this 2007 report from the British Ministry of Defence to riff on some of his favorite themes. In particular, he seems to have well understood that communications technology could be used to surveil and manipulate just as much as it can be used to enrage mobs, and this

The Long View 2007-04-05: Piracy, Democratic Plan B, More Piracy, Alger Hiss, Fukuyama's End

Letters of marque never really took off, but private military companies seem to have done relatively well in the years since the Iraq War. Piracy, Democratic Plan B, More Piracy, Alger Hiss, Fukuyama's End Could the United States prosecute the Terror war by licensing pirates? Instapundit entertains this

The Long View 2007-04-02: Saecula, Bismarck & Lincoln, House of Lords

The 1860s were a peculiar decade. You saw the US Civil War, the formation wars of the German Empire, the War of the Triple Alliance in South America that killed something like 70% of all men in Paraguay, and the Taiping Rebellion in China that killed something like 15%-20%

The Long View 2007-03-30: Human Nature, Human Rights, Iranian Motives, Goodbye Bees

This is a fun one: I hadn’t remember that John J. Reilly referenced Greg Cochran and John Hawks in 2007. John also mentions a fairly standard criticism of any attempt to understand human behavior in terms of evolution, the Just So Stories of Kipling. It is sometimes true that

The Long View 2007-03-28: AI Marketing; Chant before Swine; WWDD; The Night Vision; Lafferty!

John J. Reilly makes a statement here that I readily agree with, but is probably highly non-obvious to almost everyone: As I have remarked before, "What Would Darwin Do?" may soon become a more potent bracelet inscription than "What Would Jesus Do?" For most public-policy questions,

The Long View 2007-03-22: Conrad Black, Biblical Literacy, the No-State Solution, Theology in the Air

This paragraph contains a line that has echoed in my mind for more than a decade now: This item caught my eye, however, because I am already taking the professor's advice: as an exercise for Lent, I am reading the whole Bible. I started on the New Testament

The Long View 2007-03-15: Global Warming and Conversation Stoppers

This bit is particularly funny now that “conversation” has started to have the meaning “I talk and you listen” in politics. Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton officially rescinded her bid for president at an Iowa campaign appearance Saturday..."America, you spoke clearly and with conviction—and I listened. And so