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The Long View 2008-03-07: Nuclear Apocalypse; Threatening Choirs; The Documentary of Doom; New Jersey; Motorcycling

John’s comment here is apt: The Nuclear Apocalyptic Novel is culturally important in a way that Hitler Wins Alternative History never will be. The Cold War made an impression on the psyche of the West. An absolutely enormous amount of popular art is an attempt to think through the

The Long View 2008-03-04: Jesuit Subversion; Cold Snap; Daylight Saving; Northern Mystery

John J. Reilly was always a fan of Fortean phenomena. The Salish Sea human feet certain fall in that bucket. Jesuit Subversion; Cold Snap; Daylight Saving; Northern Mystery We have already noted the Turkish project to subject the hadith to the "higher criticism," thereby, it is alleged, sparking

The Long View 2008-02-29: Inflation; Capital Gains Zombies; Bill Buckley; Iraq & Public Opinion

As we move from the era of Imperial Populism into the Comedy of Errors, ponder the lasting influence of a coalition now seventy years old has on the American Right: The components were more than usually incompatible. The foreign policy hawks really needed the patriotic solidarity that the New Deal

John J. Reilly on Joe Haldeman's Forever Peace

John J. Reilly’s review of Joe Haldeman’s Forever Peace [Amazon link] contains a remarkable digression on the economics of abundance. John wrote it twenty two years ago, and if anything it only gets better with age. Read it for yourself. Then there is the economics of abundance. In

The Long View 2008-02-27: Killer Robots, Giant Snakes, McCain's Necessity, Pournelle's Fallacy

The widespread use of drones in combat has been talked about for decades, but still hasn’t quite happened. The recent war in Nagorno-Karabakh may be how that long mooted future finally comes about. Killer Robots, Giant Snakes, McCain's Necessity, Pournelle's Fallacy Landmines are no substitute

The Long View 2008-02-25: Spenglers False & True

John J. Reilly mentions here his extended review of Amaury De Riencourt’s The Coming Caesars. An updated version of the book came out in 2013, but the original was published in 1957. Like John, I am struck by de Riencourt’s outsider’s assessment of America. Spenglers False &

The Long View 2008-02-23: The Transnational Right; Hillary Needs Her Own Scandal; McCain Could Have Avoided One

This 2008 preview of the policies of Viktor Orbán in The Nation seems on point. The tone of the coverage certainly hasn’t changed. Also, looking back at John J. Reilly’s review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone, which he links here, I find I wrote this in the