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The Long View: The Future of Peace and Justice in the Global Village

C. S. Lewis famously made much the same argument in the Abolition of Man that McFaul makes here: the ethical systems of most world religions are strikingly similar, no matter how incompatible their ultimate claims about reality are. An interesting aside here is if you look at the ethnographic literature,

The Long View 2007-02-04: Glitter & Doom

This Weimar era art exhibition John J. Reilly describes here sounds fascinating. I found a few examples from the three artists John said were most prominent in the show: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and George Grosz. Their work is fascinating, but I can see why the Weimar era couldn’t

The Long View 2007-02-02: Groundhog's Day

Homo floresensis is definitely a new species. Time flies with ancient DNA. Groundhog's Day The case against homo floresensis is not quite closed, if this report is to be believed: The tiny woman dubbed the Hobbit who lived 18,000 years ago on a remote Indonesian island deserves

The Long View 2007-01-27: The Real Enemy; Guardian Robots; The Constant of Tolerable Terror

Two of the links John J. Reilly put in this post are really good: A Culture Worth Dying For The fact is that if democracy meant nothing else than that blasphemy could be freely circulated, or that pornography was always available at the touch of a button, or that Michael

The Long View: We All Fall Down

The best paragraph in this fascinating book review by John J. Reilly is this: As an aside, we may note that this solidifying of the self into an entity that acts without regard to desire is also the goal of certain esotericists. The adamantine self becomes a "body of

The Long View 2007-01-26: The Dead Hand of the Seventies Flexes but Is Mitigated by Scientific Advances

I have never bothered to closely follow popular science news for two reasons: 1. It is often confused, at best 2. Even when it is well-reported, whatever results are covered tend to be invalidated over time Nothing here strikes me as especially dumb, but I like to wait for the

The Long View 2007-01-24: The State of the Union

This The Long View post is brief, so I will be similarly brief: I still think you could assemble an interesting majority coalition in American politics that was all-in for universal healthcare, moderately skeptical about immigration, and just a little bit anti-free trade. I don’t expect this to happen,