Category Archives: Future History

Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)

by CK MacLeod Posted on April 1, 2012

Quite impossibly (certainly), in a universally homogeneous global and probably near earth orbital super-stadium of stadia where the yoga-ball season never ends, those who refrain from singing along, are the loudest. Continue reading →

Posted in Future History, Sports, US History, Yoga | Tagged America, American Idea, Americanism, Anacreon, Anti-Federalism, baseball, Borat, Constitution, Democratic Republican, Federalism, Francis Scott Key, Francis Scott Smith Miller, Gordon Wood, Ideal Americanism, Jefferson, Kazakhstan, Madison, Metonymy, National Anthem, Nationalism, Pennsylvania, Scott Smith Miller, Star-Spangled Banner, War of 1812, Whiskey Rebellion, Woodrow Wilson, Yoga | 3 Comments

Toward a Society of the Anti-Spectacle

by CK MacLeod Posted on September 11, 2011

Jonathan Bernstein asked for suggestions on 9/11 Reading/Viewing/Listening. I suggested: Gillespie THE THEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF MODERNITY Wright THE EVOLUTION OF GOD Lilla THE STILLBORN GOD Ansary DESTINY DISRUPTED (A History of the World through Islamic Eyes) Van Creveld THE TRANSFORMATION … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History, Movies, Religion, US History, War | Tagged 9/11, Media, Terror, War | 20 Comments

This Has Gone Far Enough

by bob Posted on June 9, 2011

Posted in Art, Future History, Movies, Music, Science, Writing | Tagged Brain Damage, Diplomacy, The Ineffable | 2 Comments

The Nothing Changes

by fuster Posted on December 31, 2010

Nothing, my lord. Nothing! Nothing. Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.

Posted in Frogs, Future History, Music, Writing | Tagged Best Lines, Diplomacy, everything old http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=147_ZF_jnjw, Language, Law & Justice | 10 Comments

Not come and go in a heated rush

by fuster Posted on November 10, 2010

In today’s NYTimes there is an editorial signed byJohn R. Bolton, the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, a senior fellow and John Yoo, a deputy assistant attorney general from 2001 to 2003, a law professor … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History, Politics | Tagged 2010 Elections, 2012 Elections, Barack Obama, blather was thirty years old today, Moonbats, National Defense, Nuclear Strategy, Race Relations, Russia, Secret Defeatist Panties, US National Defense | 12 Comments

No exceptionalism to the rule…

by CK MacLeod Posted on November 6, 2010

Even when confronting striking evidence that something is wrong and that no one has an implementable solution, even when imagining that at least they have stepped outside of political-philosophical gridlock, American pundits, politicians, and popular historians write with unquestioning optimism … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History, History, US History | Tagged 2010 Elections, 2010 Mid-Terms, 2012 Elections, American Exceptionalism, gridlock, Walter Russell Mead | 4 Comments

Totally greatest country like ever

by CK MacLeod Posted on November 2, 2010

Mike suggests he believes that the United States is not the greatest country in the history of the world; I disagree, for manifold reasons I will detail if anyone cares. But I think he is right to argue that telling … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History | Tagged American Exceptionalism, Jeffrey Goldberg, Michael Kinsley | 2 Comments

China and the Koreas

by fuster Posted on September 24, 2010

Professor Jochnowitz’s speculation that China will be moved to offer a generous severance package to the Kim family to leave North Korea so that the regime may be modified and the country deflected from its dead-end trajectory has me wondering. … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Future History, Politics | Tagged China, Diplomacy, Japan, regime change, speculation | 36 Comments

Shouting FIRE in a crowded world

by CK MacLeod Posted on September 17, 2010

“Developing World Catches a Fresh IT Wave” looks like the title for some completely disposable fluff piece, possibly in a trade publication or even an investment brochure, featuring interviews with a Sri Lankan computer geek and an Indonesian businesswoman addicted … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History | Tagged Andy Xie, Financial Crisis, Macroeconomic Analysis & Forecasting, Mike Hudson | 19 Comments

…and take all our separate planets with us

by CK MacLeod Posted on June 3, 2010

If you’re going to declare someone else to be insane, your diagnosis will be easier to credit if it’s not couched in absurdities. Here’s the conclusion of Gabriel Schoenfeld’s post today at The Weekly Standard blog: The outpouring of condemnation from … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History, International Relations, Politics, War | Tagged Dextro, Doctor Zero, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Israel, Munich, War | 77 Comments

Tales from the Geopolitical Crypt: Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich

by CK MacLeod Posted on December 17, 2009

[amazon-product]0553805398[/amazon-product] Seven Deadly Scenarios can be read and enjoyed almost as a collection of near future science fiction stories, though unlike sci-fi writers, who typically unveil the imagined course of future events elliptically, piece by piece, thus to keep the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Future History, War | Tagged Future History, Global War, Strategy, US National Defense, War | 57 Comments

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – What's gonna happen

by CK MacLeod Posted on December 6, 2009

Eventually, when the deficit and the dollar sink even deeper while unemployment and interest rates rise that much higher, Americans will understand that action must be painful, swift and immediate. That is when, with or without Obama, they will set … Continue reading →

Posted in Future History, International Relations | Tagged Contention of the Day, Isolationism, Neo-Isolationism | 24 Comments

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – present is prologue

by CK MacLeod Posted on November 16, 2009

After another year of all this apologizing, revisionism, ahistoricism, and separation of Obama the Nobel Prize winner from Obama the U.S. president, no one will quite remember that it was the Chinese and Russians who butchered millions of their own … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Future History, International Relations | Tagged Barack Obama, Contention of the Day | 3 Comments

The traditionalists do not just believe that the word "marriage" should be taken to refer to the union of a man and a woman, and they do not admit of a distinction between a popular or common usage and a legal one: They insist, over and over if rarely with explanation, likely under instruction by pollsters and spin-sters, that marriage is between a man and a woman. State and the law, they believe, should reflect this primary denotation, not merely because a one-to-one correspondence between common or traditional usage and the law is preferable in the abstract, but because the heterosexual union is biologically and organically the basis of human life, making any attitude towards it other than reverence both inhuman and morbid, all the more ominous as a principle of the state. →

Let them eat flat screens (12)
- fuster:
  Siri can be a real helper…… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05 /17/science/bodies-inert-they- moved-a-robot-with-their-minds .html?hp
- CK MacLeod:
  You mean in the sense that the crisis of the late ’70s was handled by putting the US economy as a whole on the credit card? Just speculating here, but we can use...
Bibi Christ (11)
- fuster:
  It ain’t so much where he came from, it’s where he’s going……… saying ” it may have to be done” doesn’t the fact that it can’t...
- miguel cervantes:
  Well Mofaz came from Likud, didn’t he, it’s not an easy decision to strike Iran, but to deny that it may have to be done, is the delusion, similarly, the...
Ghost Machine (7)
- miguel cervantes:
  Those interested in casuistry and determinism, the film suggests that Loki came to Earth, because of the research into higher order weapons, at their own version of White Sands.
- miguel cervantes:
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo hngaudiosi/2012/05/08/disney-c onfirms-the-avengers-2-movie-t heme-park-rides-games/
Two New Sites (8)
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- CK MacLeod:
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Category Archives: Future History

Holy American Major League of Nations (Notes on Baseball and the Re-De-Nationalization of Americanism)

Toward a Society of the Anti-Spectacle

This Has Gone Far Enough

The Nothing Changes

Not come and go in a heated rush

No exceptionalism to the rule…

Totally greatest country like ever

China and the Koreas

Shouting FIRE in a crowded world

…and take all our separate planets with us

Tales from the Geopolitical Crypt: Seven Deadly Scenarios by Andrew Krepinevich

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – What's gonna happen

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – present is prologue

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