Posts tagged "politics"

Why Romania Excels in International Olympiads

Students in Romania are sharply sorted with meritocratic tests. The result is a nation punching above its weight intellectually, but not necessarily capturing the benefits. The post Why Romania Exc...

The Case for Crazy Philanthropy

Bureaucratic science is already generously funded and does not need more private support. Philanthropists should fund young outsiders, like during the Golden Age of Science. The post The Case for C...

Did Taiwan “Lose Trump?”

OVER THE LAST WEEK Christian Whiton’s essay “How Taiwan Lost Trump” has ricocheted its way through the Taiwanese media. Ever sensitive to foreign perceptions of Taiwan, the Taiwanese chattering cla...

PALLADIUM 18: Biological Inheritance

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No Country Ever Got Rich From Tourism

Factories and offices will always generate far more wealth than hotels and restaurants. Growing tourism is a sign of economic stagnation, not dynamism. The post No Country Ever Got Rich From Touris...

Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains?

The practice of archaeology is almost unique to our contemporary Western civilization rather than universal, and it is unlikely to be continued by future civilizations. The post Will Future Civiliz...

Book Notes: Stoner (1965)

NEITHER THE MALE AUTHORS NOR THE MALE READERS most preoccupied with middle age are inclined to face it cleanly. The male author depicts the mid-life crisis to escape his own. His novels and screenp...

The Age of Ultra-nihilism

The Eight Tribes of Trump and China

LAST OCTOBER I published a short breakdown of four geopolitical ‘schools’ that might shape China strategy under Trump. That piece was a pre-election preview of a much larger report I was writing fo...

The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room fo...

Observations From India

In November 2024, I traveled to India as part of a delegation hosted by the India Foundation. The foundation is a part of the new nationalist establishment steering Indian society. As they see thin...

Science Proceeds One Question at a Time

MIDWAY through his 900 page history of biology, zoologist Ernst Mayr considers the problem posed by Alfred Wallace. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently developed a theory...

Republican Debates on China: A Political Compass

MANY HAVE TRIED to pin Trump to Heritage’s “Project 2025.” The Trump campaign has not only refused to endorse Project 2025—they have refused to endorse any detailed policy plan whatsoever. Trump pr...

Who is a terrorist?

Watching colonialism in real-time

On Israel-Hamas War

What does the scanner see?

A New Luxury

Temple of Fascism

Navigating Learning in an Attention-Deficit Economy