Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest crocodil….

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit.

What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themse….

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A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. ….

Nostalgia isn't a business model.