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Episode 2: What is Science? And What Isn’t Science?

Episode 2: What is Science? And What Isn’t Science?

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck I’m going to begin with two claims about the state of...

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Le roi est mort; vive le roi

Le roi est mort; vive le roi

It was warm for November, at least by the standards of most of the men who had just arrived at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for the pending Trans-Atlantic voyage.

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Saving the Republic – Term Limits III

Saving the Republic – Term Limits III

Reduce the Market Itself Donald Trump campaigned explicitly on term limits. His proposal was that Senators serve only two terms (for a total of 12 years) and that Congressmen and Congresswomen serve only 3 terms (a total of 6 years, for those of you who slept during...

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Saving the Republic – Term Limits II

Saving the Republic – Term Limits II

How to Justify Legislation Every problem, no matter how small or inconsequential, can never fail to be magnified, exaggerated, or - with a suitably agenda-driven Media - simply concocted out of whole cloth by partisan hacks and flacks, and then subsequently painted as...

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