Category: Big Ideas

Fighting the Last War

When the politics of the past become more attractive than the politics of the future, one should fear for the future....

An Inconvenient Truth

I used to think of Oxfam as a charitable organization engaged primarily in laudable work to alleviate global poverty....

Are we losing our edge?

The most disturbing thing about the National Science Foundation's announcement this week, that they will tear down the famous radio observatory at Arecibo, is that it didn't come as a surprise....