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  • Le Fraternité, c’est Surestimé

    It takes a few days to adjust to the sight of them—the scores of homeless people living on Paris’s streets.

  • Politically Depressed

    Ehrenfest had a remarkable knack for translating and interpreting the work of giants like Heisenberg, Bohr, and Dirac.

  • Un-Shutting Up About Politics

    I once vowed to keep politics off this blog, but recently found myself crossing that self-imposed red line. It’s not a slip; it’s a shift.

  • Not Even Right

    I’m not much of a political animal, but it seems entirely senseless to dismantle the state by ceding power to those who already enjoy a comfortable life.

  • How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Build Peace in the Middle East

    They say there’s a special type of peacefulness preceding storms. That felt true of the atmosphere in Israel and Palestine during the spring and summer of 2000.

  • The Battle of the Elms and the End of Swedish Technocracy

    The word ‘politics’ has no real meaning in a technocracy. All that counts is skilful execution of ideas, which in and of themselves were fundamentally self-evident.