In my latest National Post column I ask on what scientific principle man-made global warming will supposedly cause every cute or useful species to go into terminal decline while everything loathsome flourishes.
In my latest Mercatornet piece I argue that Stephen Hawking’s arguments in his last book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, are as unconvincing as they are dreary.
“Such reactions [seeing only the enormous good or bad potential of a new technology] are amplified by what might be termed chronocentricity – the egotism that one’s own generation is posed on the very cusp of history. Today, we are repeatedly told that we are in the midst of a communications revolution. But the electric telegraph was, in many ways, far more disconcerting...”
Epilogue in Tom Standage The Victorian Internet
In my latest C2C Journal article I said the people tearing down statues of Sir John A. Macdonald have an even greater need to learn humility from history than the rest of us.