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)

Depends what you regard his job as, really. I would suggest that the American public have different priorities (inflation, jobs) to Trump (corruption, self-aggrandisement, revenge) and this disconnec… (View Post)