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I had been so looking forward to attending the Fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day celebration at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It was set to be a meticulously coordinated all-day event with leaders in the field of climate change, based around small group breakout sessions, and exhibitor tables. […]
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Did the God of theism—omnipotent, wholly wise, and perfectly good—use Darwinian evolution to create species? Many contemporary thinkers see this “evolutionary theism” as wildly implausible. Why? One reason is that Darwinian evolution has caused unimaginable amounts of brutal suffering by animals in an unfathomably long planetary past, and it does so in nature now. Did […]
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Part 1 outlines the rapid worldwide use of mobile phone location data for contact tracing purposes. Part 2 concludes by examining how information privacy law protections apply now and how they should apply in the future, especially in relation to new forms of modulated power. What about the application of current information privacy law protections?Part […]
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It’s a scenario that’s been on the very top of every cybersecurity official’s list of nightmares for a good while now: a cyberattack targeting critical IT infrastructures of a hospital, bringing all lifesaving operations to a halt with potentially deadly consequences. Unsurprisingly, these persistent anxieties have only increased in the midst of a global pandemic […]
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Growing up on what is truly one of the most beautiful college campuses, Michigan State University, I was a pre-teen when the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Most memorable was watching the CBS Evening News, when Walter Cronkite (who, in an opinion poll taken in 1972 named him as “the most trusted man […]
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On 8 November 1977, President Jimmy Carter made a televised address to the US nation on the subject of energy. There was a crisis. Geopolitical tensions had resulted in an embargo on oil exports from the Middle East, on whose output much of the industrial world then relied. The ‘energy crisis’ of the 1970s was […]
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Imagine you’re a policymaker who wants to expand parental choice of private education. You’re not alone: sixty school voucher programs operate across the United States, offering hundreds of thousands of families the money to pay for private school tuition. Virtually all of them were created in the last two decades. What explains this explosive recent […]
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Blogging about anything in the context of a global pandemic seems rather hopeless. It doesn’t help that I have chosen to blog on a book published (in its final edition) twenty-five years ago. Why on earth (if you will excuse the expression) should this matter? As I am currently recovering from the coronavirus, this question […]
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