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The Long View 2005-09-16: Supreme Job Search; GOZland

John often argued that the Republican party needed to learn how to raise taxes. He may have intuited that there was an open opportunity for a party that was socially conservative and willing to spend money on welfare. Supreme Job Search; GOZland How does one become a US Supreme Court

The Long View 2005-09-13: The Rapture Today; Modernity and the Arabists; Heinlein Lives

I read a number of Heinlein juveniles at my elementary school library. I think Citizen of the Galaxy was one of them. Now that I'm older, I notice more of Heinlein's weirdness, but as a kid, all that sailed right over my head, and I just

The Long View 2005-09-07: The Wicked City

John Reilly didn't find the idea that New Orleans had been punished for its sins particularly compelling. The Wicked City We admire Mark Steyn in part because he so rarely has to take back his numerous predictions. For Katrina, however, he was forced to make an exception: What

The Long View 2005-09-03: The Katrina Disaster: Reality, Myth, and Future

John's prediction about the consequences of Hurricane Katrina didn't really pan out. We may expect, though, that people will demand larger, more effective government, and that they will insist on paying for it now. This will mean a larger standing military, if not necessarily a draft.

The Long View: The New Absolutes

This twenty-year old essay is topical this week, with the defenestration of James Damore from Google. I've said several times that the cultural Left won the culture war in the United States, at least insofar as they hold more power to impose their ideas than the Right at

The Long View 2005-08-30: Corrections & Short Reviews

John didn't follow Harry Potter closely, but he guessed the shape of the story pretty well. Corrections & Short Reviews Disturbing information about John Roberts, President Bush's nominee for the United States Supreme Court, was revealed in a frontpage New York Times story on Monday. The

The Long View 2005-08-26: A Walk on the Blind Side

Twelve years later, the HELLADS system is still in development. The press release cited by CNN below said it would operational by 2007. Hah. With the recent sabre-rattling between the United States and North Korea, both the utility of such a system for the US [defense against countries too poor