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The Long View: Richard Feynman and Isaac Asimov on Spelling Reform

It is not just myself, John Reilly, and Emil Kirkegaard who talk about this. I will note that I'm a little dubious of the idea that orthographic reform will boost English reading ability dramatically. Richard Feynman and Isaac Asimov on Spelling Reform by John J. Reilly Note: This

The Long View 2005-01-30: Defeats, Victories, Miracles, Chimeras, Fashion Protocol

We are lucky President George W. Bush's privatization of social security never got anywhere. That combined with the housing bubble could have been genuinely revolutionary, in the howling mob kind of way. Defeats, Victories, Miracles, Chimeras, Fashion Protocol National Public Radio this morning took care to remind its

The Long View 2005-01-26: Anonymous, Huis Clos, Alcohol, Acoustic Decavitation

Michael Scheuer still strikes me as a bit of a nut, but the prediction John Reilly heaped scorn on here seems to have been spot on. Anonymous, Huis Clos, Alcohol, Acoustic Decavitation Michael Scheuer, the former CIA expert on Osama bin Laden, is best known for his book Imperial Hubris.

The Grait God Pan

I've somehow missed this book, but it turns out to be an influence on both H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. This version is in John Reilly's Snapscript. Contents I THE EXPERIMNT II MR. CLARKES MEMWARS III THE SITY OV REZERECSIONS IV THE DISCUVRY IN PAUL

The Long View: Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages

Ignore doomsday at your peril. Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages by Eugen Weber Harvard University Press, 2000 294 pages, US$16.95 (Paperback) ISBN 0-674-00395-0 The University of Toronto asked Eugen Weber, the noted emeritus professor of modern European history at UCLA, to give the 1999

The Long View 2005-01-21: Fire in the Minds of Men

John Reilly here puts his unique gloss on President George W. Bush's second inaugural address. A lot of sober commentators at the time were surprised by its tone, which was utopian and revolutionary. John wasn't, because W was articulating something that has a long history in

The Long View 2005-01-18: Murder, Integralism, & Neuroscience

It is prudent to discount anything "proved" with fMRI. Murder, Integralism, & Neuroscience I rarely follow crime news, so I paid no particular attention to the headlines I saw at the end of last week about the slaughter of the Armanious family here in Jersey City. Only yesterday