Monthly Archives: May, 2020
Against Masks
The great social argument of this instant is whether everyone should now, because of the Wuhan Plague, be required to wear face masks, and...
SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build (Jonathan Waldman)
The classic American path to technological success has been for driven tinkerers to obsessively work to solve a problem, from Eli Whitney to Thomas...
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
Starship Troopers, sixty years old, is a famous work of science fiction. As with most Robert Heinlein novels, the point is more the ideas...
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright)
We all know religious devotion has declined precipitously in America. Most of what religion remains is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, which is the sherbet of...