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Economics

State of the Union

Michael Fumento

Is fusion really the energy of the future? Michael Fumento explores its current prospects, including inertial and magnetic confinement, inertial electrostatic confinement, and compact reactors.

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Economics

Equal by Catastrophe

Victor Davis Hanson

Is economic equality all it’s cracked up to be? Victor Davis Hanson reviews Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.

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Physics

Recollections of Some Notable Texts

Jeremy Bernstein

A recent collection of Freeman Dyson’s lectures, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, is reviewed by Jeremy Bernstein, alongside other published lectures by Julian Schwinger and Steven Weinberg.

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Physics

Odd Man Out

Andrew Jordan

A review of Roger Penrose’s Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy by physicist Andrew Jordan. An ironic tension: Penrose attacks contemporary physics as fanciful; his own proposals are just as farfetched.

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Archaeology

Another Great Story

Wendy Doniger

Of myths and legends. Wendy Doniger reviews Asko Parpola’s The Roots of Hinduism. Astonishingly erudite, Parpola often allows his imagination and desire to reach beyond the available evidence.

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Anthropology

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Skulls That Speak

Antoine Balzeau

Antoine Balzeau review a recent paper that argues for a link between the development of human language and the evolving shape of the human skull.

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Astronomy

Homage to Quietanus

Jacques Mertzeisen & Jean-Pierre Luminet

A puzzling sundial, a transit of Mercury, letters with Kepler and Galileo, and a long-forgotten astronomer. Jacques Mertzeisen and Jean-Pierre Luminet tell the story of Johannes Remus Quietanus.

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Linguistics

The Galilean Challenge

Noam Chomsky

One of the most striking features of the human capacity for language is the use of finite means to express an unlimited array of thoughts. Accounting for this feature is the Galilean challenge.

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Sociology

Trump and the Trumpists

Wolfgang Streeck

Trumpism, according to Wolfgang Streeck, was a result of a global shift from classes to status groups, exacerbating social rifts between neoliberal urban elites and the traditional working class.

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