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James Gleick has written about some of the most distinguished minds in history. As a former science reporter at the New York Times, he profiled some of the most brilliant people in the world. He’s written biographies of Isaac Newton and Richard Feyman. His most recent book—The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood—examined the
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It seems the legacies of historical figures like Christopher Columbus and Thomas Jefferson can’t be discussed without activists arguing that they were problematic characters. Such figures are not judged as products of their time but as villains in the woke creed. And because of their villainous reputation, we are also not allowed to appreciate their
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Late last week, an article in the U.K. Telegraph caught my eye. It reported on a new study which found that selective grammar schools – akin to what the U.S. might refer to as college-prep schools – aren’t necessarily the key to producing smart kids. The thing that does produce smart, academically successful kids is
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Designer babies are looking more and more like a reality whose time is imminent. Piggybacking on recent research which allows scientists “to rewrite the DNA bound up in living cells,” an ethics panel in the U.K. just released a report which suggests this maneuvering of genetics is “morally permissible.” The announcement does not come without
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For most of my life, technological advancements were a given. As a member of Generation Z, I grew up hearing that every new platform would make us more connected, every new device make us more efficient, and every new innovation make us more liberated. The future was always presented as something frictionless: Faster is better,
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On July 1, 2020, a boatload of laws passed by the Democrats of the Virginia legislature and approved by Democrat Governor Ralph Northam took effect. In his online article, “Virginia circling the Green New Drain,” James Stansbury focuses on Virginia’s new energy regulations, which as he says are “basically a copycat of the Democrats’ radical Green
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