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Ross Douthat says that it makes sense that the U.S. government is abandoning manned space exploration, at least for the time being. He approvingly quotes John Derbyshire, who says: From the beginnings of modern science in the late 17th century, all the major European nations offered state support to societies and academies of pure research.…

David Rieff is just back from India, and finds America to be sleepwalking its way to a bad place. Excerpt: It is in the manufacturing of an ersatz reality based on lies–or, in our present case, on the eliding of the distinction between lies and truth–that people come to connive in their own misrule. The…

Niall Ferguson says the fiscal black hole that is Greece may not be merely a Eurozone problem. As goes Greece, so go we all. Excerpt: For the world’s biggest economy, the US, the day of reckoning still seems reassuringly remote. The worse things get in the eurozone, the more the US dollar rallies as nervous…

Woke up this morning to the shocking, awful news that an old friend was killed yesterday in a car crash near New Orleans. Gerard was taking his parents, who also died, home from the doctor. Police today booked a woman with three counts of negligent homicide in the hit-and-run accident. Knowing the kind of man…
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