Bad Cattitude | 13 Dec 2021 This has become a joke. it’s just not a very good joke. Socialism is infamous for having the same cycle everywhere: make grandiose utopian clams about how socialism will fix all the world’s problems and bring about equality, prosperity, and happiness take power and implement socialism run the world…
Amanda Knox | 13 Dec 2021 Amanda Knox on why we can’t look away from female villains. There are no cameras allowed inside Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, but that hasn’t stopped me from poring over every sketch of the courtroom scene, and analyzing each kernel of evidence that emerges. Meanwhile, there are a lot of people on trial…
Common Sense | 27 Nov 2021 California’s burglars organize flash mobs. Waukesha massacre “caused by an SUV.” And comedy gold from the Women’s March. Welcome back to TGIF and happy Thanksgiving. It’ll be a short one this week so we can all get back to family life—cozy, mask-free, family life (and watching the Dow drop…
The Guardian | 27 Jan 2019 Changing fertility rates challenge dystopian visions and UN projections about the future of our overcrowded planet She is a well-educated, professional woman, working in an office tower in central Nairobi, Kenya. Because of her status and education, the price required to marry her is bound to be high. Although…
The Independent | 3 Aug 2016 ‘Oh, little snowflakes, when did you all become grandmothers and society matrons, clutching your pearls in horror at someone who has an opinion about something, a way of expressing themselves that’s not the mirror image of yours?’ If you’ve been listening to Bret Easton Ellis’ excellent podcast over the…
Prison Planet | 2 Aug 2016 Will we transcend the predatory elite to reach the stars? Physicists have suggested that life on Earth was premature on the cosmic scale, which implies that humanity faces an epic wall known as the “Great Filter” our species must transcend to colonize the stars and avoid extinction. A theoretical…
The Spinoff | 28 Aug 2016 Jose Barbosa talks to Adam Boileau of Insomnia Security about hacking thriller Mr Robot, and New Zealand’s place in the info-war web. The much anticipated Mr Robot season two is on Lightbox. To get everyone’s head in the right place José Barbosa talks to Adam Boileau, a computer security specialist…
Tech Crunch | 17 July 2016 Players of Pokemon Go are not only giving up their right to act like sane human beings in public, as they walk around, zombie-esque, reaching into the phones held in front of their faces, they are also likely to be waiving legal rights if they don’t take a very close look at…
Washington Post | 13 July 2016 Roland Fryer Jr. never cared much for the cops. When he was growing up, his family dealt crack in Daytona Beach, Fla., and while Fryer was on his way to becoming a celebrated economist at Harvard University, many of his cousins and closest friends were serving mandatory sentences in prison. During his childhood, encounters with police were fraught…
Mikael Thalen | 1 July 2016 Thrash metal pioneer defends gun rights in epic rant The frontman for thrash-metal band Slayer was filmed at a recent concert in Switzerland delivering a pro-gun speech. Tom Araya, the band’s singer and bassist, praised the country’s gun culture while warning against the dangers of a disarmed populace. “Where you are in the…