The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Monthly archives of “February 2012”
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Free Speech Absolutism
Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on the importance of absolute, unconstrained free speech: Free speech is about preventing the state both from forcing individuals to remain silent and from forcing individuals to say something they do not want…
The Global Innovation Challenge
Rising unemployment and income disparity has shaken democracies across the Western world in the last year. Unemployment among young people in particular has been persistent and pervasive — the United States saw the highest ever youth unemployment in 2011, and…
Scientific Inquiry
There is a truth, but none of us knows it – this is the central assumption behind scientific inquiry.
– Steven Pinker