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The Long View 2005-02-07: Terror War, Geezer War, Culture War

John Reilly posited two possible ways to deal with the aging of the population in the Western world: 1. Euthanasia 2. Have more kids I know which one I would choose, but we ended up getting some combination of both 1. and 2. However, 2. was modified to be solved

The Long View: The Politics of Meaning

I don't think I can improve on this concluding paragraph. The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism By Michael Lerner Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996 $24.00, 355 pages ISBN: 0-201-47966-4 The '60s Left Tries God Remember back in 1993 when First

The Long View 2005-02-03: The State of the Union 2005

If President George W. Bush presented the 2003 Iraq War as just one campaign in a larger conflict, I suppose he was right. But I don't think we got exactly what he meant. The State of the Union 2005 That was a very strong speech the president gave

The Long View 2005-02-01: The Origins of Bad Behavior

We should indeed be wary of Just-So Stories when it comes to the evolution of traits, but not exactly in the way John expresses here: The study itself, in fact, purports to find a correlation between the murder rates in primitive societies and the incidence of lefthandedness among their populations.

The Long View: Downsizing Is Easy; Government Is Hard

When I turned 18, I registered as a libertarian. Then I found out how weird most libertarians are, and I switched back to mainstream American politics. Joking aside, a big philosophical difference that I have with libertarianism is the idea that government, as such, is evil. This is an idea

Topical Indexes and Hyperlinked Table of Contents

With Sunday's post about Isaac Asimov and Richard Feynman, my recreation of John Reilly's topical index for spelling reform is complete. I went back and created hyperlinks for the table of contents in several longer entries, such as Theodore Roosevelt's Mysterious Executive Order, and

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