Don't miss Michael Hasting's excellent, recent interview of Julian Assange in Rolling Stone . Assange mentions the speaker in the v...

Just when one might have feared that Assange and Wikileaks had been successfully sidelined, WL's issued this press release: Julian Assan...

I'd embed Alain de Botton's TED talk, "Atheism 2.0," except that for some reason, TED's forcing a big bunch of empty s...

Excellent overview of where these bills are coming from and what we should expect going forward, at TED .

As explained in a 2009 post and by others before me, "insect-resistent" GM plants have in fact been engineered to produce food th...

" Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – whi...

Ok, we need a better term. The basic idea is, the fundamental rights recognized by the Founding Fathers, such as the right not to be killed...