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"The Origins of Totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt
The Banality of Evil
Jul 14 • 
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May 2025

Flight Fever on the Potomac
Bottom-Up Innovation
May 16 • 
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April 2025

Info Wars
The Perpetual Battle for Control of Information
Apr 20 • 
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March 2025

Wager
The wages of Wager were famine, pestilence, destruction and death.
Mar 11 • 
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January 2025

Invitation to a Conflagration
So many red flags; so little notice.
Jan 12 • 
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December 2024

The Golden Boy's Golden Field Goal
A New Year's Amuse-Bouche
Dec 30, 2024 • 
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Mercy Killing
Let's hope 2024 will be remembered as sayonara for celebrity polemics, polling derbies, cable news industrial-size expert panels and legacy media…
Dec 24, 2024 • 
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Error Chain (Part Two)
The Crash of TWA Flight 514: a classic 'error chain' accident
Dec 10, 2024
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Error Chain (Part One)
The Crash of TWA Flight 514
Dec 2, 2024 • 
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November 2024

Robert Sees The Light?
Who Really Cares About Climate Change? Tuesday’s election shows that radical climate policy is a loser — even in Berkeley - Robert Bryce
Nov 14, 2024
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September 2024

A Tale of Two 'Extreme Weather Events'*
*EWEs used to be called storms
Sep 29, 2024 • 
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Hospitalized
Caught and Released
Sep 3, 2024 • 
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