By • Sep 15,2008

David Foster Wallace, RIP

I was deeply shocked and saddened to read that writer David Foster Wallace took his own life this past weekend. The death of such a talent is always a loss,...

By • Sep 15,2008

A latter-day Genghis Khan

Warmonger? Mass murderer? Evil incarnate? Yes, Hitler was all of these things, but, as Niall Ferguson says, he was also an inept colonialist, and his Reich one of the last,...

By • Sep 15,2008

Why the world won't end, part 8

Ron Bailey deconstructs the application of the precautionary principle to the Large Hadron Collider: [T]he empirical evidence is that the universe has been running trillions of these high-energy physics “experiments”...

By • Sep 15,2008

Reviewing The Anthrax Evidence

“Based upon the totality of the evidence we had gathered against him, we are confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks.” – Jeffrey Taylor, U.S....