Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
All eyes may be on the Italian election results this morning, but Europe’s got much bigger problems on its hands than the prospect of a Right-wing government. Winter is coming, and the catastrophic consequences of Europe’s self-imposed energy crisis are already being felt across the continent. As politicians continue to devise unrealistic plans for energy… The …
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“The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.” Writing those words as the introduction to his 1995 anti-… Gen Z’s worship of the Unabomber His idea is more mainstream amongst his contemporaries that they care to admit, as my outline of American environmentalism in Should My Students Be Here? …
I never imagined I’d feel profound grief at the passing of a public figure. At those points in my life where someone close to me has died, the hours …Who can rule Britain now?
It was inevitable: Biden explained how his plan is based on one specific tenet: giving law enforcement the resources and funds necessary to engage safely in public policing. He's found out what his Chinese counterparts could have told him a long time ago: “All police forces get buffeted from time to time, but they know one thing: …
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The former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is gone: Alongside Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Gorbachev was a key protagonist in a global drama that many thought impossible and, for those who lived through it, seemed almost surreal. Under Gorbachev, the Berlin Wall crumbled, thousands of political prisoners were released …
Got this in my university email inbox, from a professor in the criminal justice program, it's the trigger warning he puts in his (maybe her) syllabus: As with most criminal justice-related courses, the subject matter contained within the class is often shocking and controversial. While I understand that each individual is affected differently by topics …
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Britain may be recovering from a heatwave, but its politicians are already fearful that winter is coming. Only now, more than 170 days since the war …Britain’s elites have lost control
Last year, before the Fall semester started, I posted Teaching Secular Blasphemy, where I attacked the whole "perfect life" concept that pervades our culture, inflates our expectations and makes us depressed and angry when they don't work out. I didn't attack this idea because of their psychological or sociological damage (which are evident) but because …
Not long after the Trump election I was invited to a dinner party of the sort I’d only recently learned existed. Here’s how it goes. The host is wealthy, as are half the guests, and the other half are intellectuals there to provide entertainment. Waiters bring courses prepared by the chef in the kitchen while… The …
The Democratic Socialists of America are on a roll in Los Angeles, and the school system continues to decline: Minority students are disproportionately hurt by Los Angeles’s subpar public school systems. The DSA’s refusal to challenge underperforming schools in minority neighborhoods is a testament to its role as a mouthpiece for failed public-sector unions such …
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