America is forgetting how to make stuff
These skills are a matter of national security and social stability
Progress
Monday
Monday
The peculiarly American attitude toward change
Until quite recently, the preponderance of the country viewed suspicion of change, let alone resistance to it, as un-American
Feminism has failed us
Has demonstrating our alleged progress replaced progress itself?
Thursday
Only an idiot would choose to live at any other time than the present
Steven Pinker’s new book is a characteristically fluent, decisive and data-rich demonstration of why, given the chance to live at any point in human history, only a stone-cold idiot would choose any time other than the present. On average, humans are by orders of magnitude healthier, wealthier, nicer, happier, longer lived, more free and better … Read more
