Breaking news: the U.S. Air Force is running out of ordinary bombs, smart bombs, and in some cases missiles. No kidding. The air war over Syria and Iraq that began in August 2014 and is now two-and-a-half years old has eaten through America’s supply of bombs. The usual crew of weapons makers evidently can’t produce …
To The Guardian: Regarding Jonathan Steele’s review of “Insatiable” by Stuart Sim (7 April): Insatiable greed, the profit motive and competition are not the only aspects of human nature that conform to the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest”. “Fittest” in “On the Origin of Species” doesn’t mean most able to exploit those around …
“As an imperial power, there’s never been anything like the United States when it comes to garrisoning this planet. By comparison, the Romans and imperial Chinese were pikers; the Soviet Union in its prime was the poorest of runners-up; even the British, at the moment when the sun theoretically never set on their empire, didn’t …
This is the second of my Epicurus and Modern Philosophy series. I will continue this series for many months to come, though I’m not sure if it’ll run as frequently as every fortnight. Whenever a post of mine is titled, ‘Epicurus and…’, then you know it’s part of the Modern Philosophy series. I’ll also be frequently …
Scott Pruit, US Environmental Protection Agency chief, made headlines for his recent denial that anthropogenic carbon dioxide is the primary control knob for Earth’s climate. Of course, the truth is that growth in CO2 emissions is the main contributor to the climate change we see. Without emissions abatement it seems inevitable that pumping greenhouse gases …
