Category: Opinion

“Most of the law professors and judges who read it were polite enough to say the arguments were thought provoking, but…”

In an unfortunate echo of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, Harris spent far too much time trying to argue that Trump was unfit for the presidency.

Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male.

On Trump winning the mandate for change: The realignment is real. The results this time weren’t, to put it in poker terms, a rare inside straight easily manipulable by nefarious forces.

Not even the fall of Dhaka in December 1971 can begin to compare with the scale of national humiliation involved.

Henry Farrell in American Affairs on Silicon Valley’s Never-Ending Search for Exit Opportunities…

When I teach young people today, it’s hard for them to grasp the magnitude and the seriousness of the Cold War and how it shaped every aspect of American life…

Diane Fieldes in R: Capitalism thwarts and stunts the creativity of human beings. It robs the…

Harvard Univ. reports engineering strategies: solar radiation management, carbon dioxide removal, and ocean fertilization, etc.

From the NY Times: A documentary filmmaker and a mathematician discuss our fear of numbers and its civic costs.

“The former President will return to the White House older, less inhibited, and far more dangerous than ever before.”

To understand how Trump could become the dominant politician of this era, it’s time for all of us to take a long, hard look in the mirror.