Samuelson on how Obama’s administration is handling…or not handling China: It would be a tragedy if these two superpowers began regarding each other as adversaries. But that’s the drift. Heirs to a 2,000-year cultural tradition — and citizens of the world’s largest country — the Chinese have an innate sense of superiority, Jacques writes. Americans,… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Walter Russell Mead with a good post on the challenge of real health care reform: Either we will ration health care much more aggressively than we do now, or we will find much more efficient ways to provide health care. I vote for the latter, and I think most Americans agree. This means that change,… Continue reading
Stephen Barr today: It is time to take stock: What has the intelligent design movement achieved? As science, nothing. The goal of science is to increase our understanding of the natural world, and there is not a single phenomenon that we understand better today or are likely to understand better in the future through the… Continue reading
I absolutely have to attend this panel at Boskone this weekend. Saturday 10am Harbor 3: The Suck Fairy, and Other Horrors of Rereading The Suck Fairy takes old books you used to like and magically makes them, well, suck. Writer Jo Walton heard tell of this creature at last year’s Montreal Worldcon; other participants deduced… Continue reading
Steve Matheson pretty much nails the problem with Stephen Meyer (and the rest of the Discovery Institute fellows.) Now, if you’re not a biologist, you might think the error is trivial, purely semantic, a typing glitch induced by the proximity of the word ‘virulent.’ And that last part is probably right. But this biologist finds… Continue reading