Winston Churchill understood Gaia better than most greens.Seventy years ago, Churchill made a prediction: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” (h/t The Guardian) Via Meadia couldn’t agree more. Not only will fake meat cut […]
Greens widely hailed President Obama’s decision to block the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, but was that move just setting up a pivot toward brown? Following his State of the Union address, the President announced plans to increase demand for natural gas by supporting infrastructure that makes use of it, as well as by […]
Four days before he dropped out of the Republican race, Governor Rick Perry created an uproar by saying that Turkey is “being ruled by what many would perceive to be Islamic terrorists,” suggesting it was time to reevaluate Turkey’s place in NATO and to consider zeroing-out US aid to the country. There was, of course, […]
Francis Fukuyama’s blog continues to make waves, this time with a skillful dissection of just what has gone wrong in Hungary. Writes Frank: The problem lies entirely in how those powers are used: nobody trusts Viktor Orbán and Fideusz to use their powers responsibly, as evidenced in the way that the government rammed the constitution […]
Cuba has been searching for oil for years; improving technology means its chances are better than ever, and a new exploratory rig offers the island nation its best hope for good economic news since communism began to eat away at the island’s hopes back in the Eisenhower administration. Oil didn’t save communism in the Soviet […]
Back at the start of the decade, Via Meadia predicted that “[t]he end of the Cold War combined with the rise of Asia will introduce the world to a new kind of reality: a post-European world order.” The past year has moved the world a long way down this path. The United States spent the […]
Last month, Via Meadia reviewed a recent study about the quality of academic research and came to a disappointing conclusion: Much of the research produced by academics isn’t very good. A recent article in The Atlantic adds a new wrinkle: Not only is the quality of this research quite poor, universities are spending a fortune […]
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