Racism
Headlines were seized this month by the ambush and murder of three American women and six children by drug traffickers in Mexico. Americans were naturally shocked by the brutality of the cartels. But it would be a mistake to think it doesn’t happen here.
Politics
_The impeachment power is quasi-judicial and differs fundamentally from Congress’s legislative authority. The Constitution assigns “the sole power of impeachment” to the House—the full chamber, which acts by majority vote, not by a press conference called by the Speaker.
What are “qualia”? I stumbled on the word recently in the Times Literary Supplement, where a review of novels by Neal Stephenson and Don DeLillo observed that both authors “are much concerned with qualia.
Politics
Main Street: During a speech at Notre Dame law school on October 11, 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr explained how secularists are assaulting religious freedom in an effort to break down traditional moral values and instead impose their own orthodoxy.
Politics
Civil servants too often forget they work for the people and seek to impose their own policy agendas.
Global Warming
_Mit dreizehn Jahren studierte er am Technion in Haifa. Heute gehört der israelische Physikprofessor Nir Shaviv zu den wenigen, die sich vom Klima-Hype distanzieren. Er entlarvt die Tricks der Wissenschaftler und erklärt, warum die Auswirkungen des CO2 auf die Erwärmung überschätzt werden.
Global Warming
Am 23. September hat eine Gruppe von 500 Wissenschaftlern und Experten der Uno die «Europäische Klima-Deklaration» («Es gibt keinen Klimanotstand») zugesandt. In den Mainstream-Medien fand der offene Brief kaum Erwähnung.
Politics
Die Forderungen der deutschen Bundeskanzlerin Merkel, die liberale Weltordnung nicht durch Schlafwandeln unbewusst und unbedacht der Erosion preiszugeben, sind Legion.
When the elevator opens into the New York office of Apa Rosenthal, there’s a brief, “Am I in the right place?” moment.
Software
On a recent afternoon, I strapped on a device that looked like a chunky ).
Global Warming
Gestatten Sie, dass ich mich kurz vorstelle. Ich arbeite am SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory der Stanford University. Mein Spezialgebiet sind Versuche, Messungen und Theorie. Es geht dabei, wie in jeder Wissenschaft, um Zuverlässigkeit.
Science
_For hearing loss, ‘the potential of drug treatments [is] phenomenal,’ says Frank Lin, a professor at Johns Hopkins.