The Reality of Anthropogenic Climate Change

Humans have had a huge impact on the Earth, and it’s silly to say otherwise. You can…

Serious People Don’t Take the World Seriously

We’ve known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There’s been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.
 — Milan Kundera, The Festival of…

The Currency of Education

Economic information is communicated through prices, and prices are paid using money. In science, the currency is reputation: a good reputation allows you to continue to work as a science; a bad reputation will end your scientific career. In the arts, the currency is aesthetic…

Fear, Hatred, and Law

One errs greatly in the study of a people’s criminal laws, if one regards them…

The Personal Is the Political

It starts in school.

You have to sit still. You have to be silent. You have to try to learn things that increasingly aren’t developmentally appropriate. If you learn differently or at a different pace than your fellow students in the same grade, all…