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“To steal a Hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.” – Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, D.S.P.D. Part way through his most famous self-elegy, Jonathan Swift delivers one of the greatest one-line gags in poetry: ‘what he writ was all his own’. The ostensibly proprietorial phrase was brazenly […]
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The economic analysis of constitutions – constitutional economics for short – has been growing fast over the last 20 years or so. Today, it has become an indispensable part of political economy, but other disciplines have contributed to its rapid development as well: political science and, obviously, law. For the non-specialist, it is often difficult […]
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Countries around the world are struggling with the economic repercussions of the pandemic, and the United States in particular has recorded levels of unemployment not seen since the Great Depression. While the CARES Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Trump in March, provided $600/week in supplemental income to some workers, this benefit lapsed at […]
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I find the realm of science a captivating enterprise to engage in. Increasingly, the importance of science is being felt today in the ongoing Covid19 pandemic. My encounters with science started at the undergraduate level, and I realised then how fascinating it was to deal with chemical substances, equipment, plants and animals. Somehow I turned […]
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Since mid-2017, reports of massive “re-education camps” in Xinjiang province have set off global outcries over the mistreatment of Muslim Uighurs in western China. Promoted as schools for deradicalization by local authorities, their sheer scale – with an estimated total of detainees ranging from several hundred thousand to over one million – covers a significant […]
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The two men could hardly seem any more different. Yes, they are both male and white and Christian and heterosexual and American. They are even approximately the same age. But in that which matters most – character, temperament, personality, and the policies with which they now identify – they are at opposite ends of the […]
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Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, sheds some light on one of humanity's most enduring questions.
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Oliver O’Reilly of UC Berkley, joins us to discuss the writing and impact of his latest book, the 2nd edition of Intermediate Dynamics for Engineers: Newton-Euler and Lagrangian Mechanics. An important book for dynamics classes across a range of engineering programs, this textbook provides a clear introduction to the kinematics and kinetics of particles and […]
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