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The Long View 2005-04-24: Sleepers: Issues & Diets

Under my heading nothing ever changes, we have this prescient post from John Reilly in 2005 where he correctly intuits that immigration will be the largest domestic political problem across the West. He also notes that the character of the problem is quite different in different places, since the typical

The Long View 2005-04-20: Wir haben einen Papst

It is interesting to look back at the partisan reactions to the elections of Pope Benedict the XVIth. Catholic conservatives, myself included, were overjoyed. Catholic liberals were despondent, having hoped for a great liberal reformer. Then, just a few short years later, the roles were reversed when the long awaited

The Long View 2005-04-18: Omens: Libertarian & Papal

This seems like a good opportunity to link to this week's most striking graph. The libertarian corner is almost wholly unoccupied by actual voters, but it figures heavily among the intelligensia and the ruling class. Omens: Libertarian & Papal People looking for bad omens were no doubt pleased

The Long View 2005-04-13: Artificial Languages; Social Security Will Be Cheap; Roman Decapitation; Desperate Islamists

Speaking of Tolkien's languages, Razib Khan recently had this to say: ...the Finns and Estonians speak language is rather peculiar in a Europe dominated by Indo-European tongues (I suspect one reason that Tolkien based Quenya, the high elvish language, on Finnish is that it is so otherworldy to

The Long View 2005-04-05: Spengler, Ratzinger, Bret Schundler

David P. Goldman, who in 2005 was writing under the pseudonym Spengler for the Asia Times, ended up writing for First Things, among other publications. Goldman was right about Ratzinger. Spengler, Ratzinger, Bret Schundler Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who spent

The Long View: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

The basic demographics of religion across the world remain unchanged from twelve years ago. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity By Philip Jenkins Oxford University Press, 2002 270 Pages, US$14.95 ISBN 0-19-516891-7 Often enough, books on important topics are published almost simultaneously with historical events that

The Long View 2005-04-02: John Paul II

Joseph Ratzinger was John's second guess for Pope following John Paul II. He was elected, and himself elected not to follow the path of John Paul II into public incapacity. John Paul II As recently as Thursday night, I was deploring the way that the Vatican was allowing