Some thoughts on growing and shrinking inequality: 1. In "Seeds of Albion", David Hackett Fischer contrasted the Puritans of New England with the Cavaliers farther south. The Puritans encou… (View Post)

Nick Palmer said: "It's got more male lately - someone commented a couple of months back about the rarity of female posters." And I agree with him that's regrettable, partly becau… (View Post)

Bolivia has permissive universities -- with "dinosaurs". For example: "San Andres university rector Oscar Heredia says it is not just student leaders but also ordinary students who rem… (View Post)

There is, of course, an alternative to both Macs and Windows. For years, Dell has sold high-end Linux desktops and laptops. And there are other hardware companies that do the same. I don't recom… (View Post)

I love that famous xkcd cartoon -- but there is a mistake in it: https://xkcd.com/1122/ (I can think of an easy correction, and you all should be able to think of many more.) (View Post)