A more imaginative left would have more to say about the future they want to create, rather than what they oppose in the status quo. For example, the Right aren't simply anti-immigration. They a… (View Post)

Trump has set himself against the Enlightenment. He is destroying Western civilization. He is dragging the US back to an Early Modern view of the state and power. It's a fucking disaster. (View Post)

There have been lots of people worried about the scale of US (and European) imports from China for many years. I also "agree" with Trump on motherhood and apple pie being good things. This … (View Post)

I don't think it's controversial to say that the population in most democracies has turned away from centrist politicians, for understandable reasons, and that right-wing populists have bee… (View Post)

Well, you could say that applied Mathematics is essentially Physics. I ended up doing Fluid Dynamics three times at University: in Maths, Astrophysics and Atmospheric Dynamics. It made a bit more sen… (View Post)