The glaciers are melting, the coral reefs are dying, Miami Beach is slowly going under. Quick, says a voice in your head, go see them before they disappear! You are evil, says another voice. For you are hastening their destruction. To a lot of people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times. Something …
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You do some things for yourself, because of who you are. What other people do is up to them. NYT
Corporatism” is one of the most misunderstood words in the political vocabulary. American progressives use it to indicate the domination of the state by business interests, when in fact it means something closer to the opposite: the subordination of commerce and industry to political mandates. National Review “Corporatism” and all other systems of centralized control …
“What if the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?” he hypothesises. Science Alert
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Great piece. The challenge since the Fall has been to live in a world without heroes yet still believe in heroism. The Judaeo Christian journey was always an enterprise of sinners. The difference used to be: we knew it. Roger Simon
To this day nobody can figure out how Reagan, who all the intellectuals of the day proclaimed a cruel, reckless dunce with near unanimity, could have been a great American president. Atlantic
Shades of Jefferson and Burr Real Clear Politics
Today, at 13, they’ve let their wavy, golden-brown hair grow past their shoulders, with thick bangs over eyelashes long enough to graze oversized aviator glasses. Hormone blockers have staved off puberty, leaving Santi’s face round and their skin clear and hairless. Guardian
I found this out firsthand years ago, when I had a conversation with the late Arne Naess, the Norwegian father of what is known as “deep ecology” and guru of the European Green movement. How seriously did Naess regard the divinity of Mother Nature? He told me that the eradication of smallpox was a technological …
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There is a crisis of senescence in liberal politics. The reason Biden, Harris and Sanders are competitive is their ideas are all roughly the same age. The strategy of recruiting fresh new faces like Beto, AOC cannot obscure the basic problem of intellectual decrepitude. The challenge facing the West is that a generational agenda has …
When Thomas Jefferson faced a coup. Wikipedia
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The simulation, presented at an industry fair in China, offered a rare look at a system that now peers into nearly every corner of Xinjiang, the troubled region where Kashgar is located. This is the vision of high-tech surveillance — precise, all-seeing, infallible — that China’s leaders are investing billions of dollars in every year, making …
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Queensland king prawns, salted caramel espresso martinis, massages at their desk – the Labor high command were in a mood for celebrating on election eve. Sydney Morning Herald
