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Henry Kissinger is gone after a century on Planet Earth. The most influential diplomat of the last fifty years, he’s never been short of fierce criticisms from both the left and right. The great war historian Victor Davis Hanson returns to the Ricochet Podcast to give a careful review of the controversial emissary.
Plus Lileks, Robinson and Long are reunited after a couple weeks to evaluate Thursday’s much touted DeSantis/Newsom face-off, and they give their early impressions of Argentina’s triumphant Milei and the seemingly vindicated Geert Wilders.
- This week’s sound: Peter Robinson talks with Dr. Henry Kissinger on Uncommon Knowledge (Sept. 26, 2008)
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Rob mentioned that Kissinger’s obituary had been written for a long while. I saw a tweet that one of the people who contributed to one of the obituaries had died in 2010, so Kissinger outlived one of his obituary writers.
The King of Obituaries is the late Bob Thomas, who was the main AP Entertainment Editor for decades. He died in 2014 and is still getting bylines. When Bob Newhart dies the obituary that you read will, by and large, be his work.
One of the replies to the tweet I saw said that AP had a writer still getting obituary bylines after his death but didn’t mention his name.
Isn’t it even better to outlive the doctors who told you that you need to change your ways?
Why wouldn’t you adopt every single thing that Ludwig von Mises said?
If he wipes out the central bank, the financial system and the government have to start dealing with deflation. Big deal.
Normal economics constantly creates deflation. Then we have central banks create inflation, so we can have wars.
Inflation is stupid and we are going to give it up the hard way.
You also can’t let in a lot of uneducated, illegal immigrants if you are constantly creating inflation. It’s deflationary. That’s as important as all of the welfare.
If 60% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, do you think they are going to procreate W-2 slaves?
Do we need inflation or deflation?
Can you make people procreate W-2 slaves at gunpoint?
Nobody with government power has any foresight.
Gay Talese has this excerpt from his recent book (yes, still alive!) about Alden Whitman, who wrote obituaries for The New York Times. I really enjoy Talese’s writing and this is exemplary of his taking a subject and making art out of it. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/gay-talese-memoir-excerpt/675359/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The Netherlands and most of the rest of “Western Europe” are probably doomed already, as Mark Steyn explained in his book “America Alone” and in multiple interviews when that book came out.
It’s especially a problem considering how many of the “native” Dutch people – and French, and others – are already past child-bearing age.
Woo-hoo, Rob Long declared me the Meetup King!