Monthly Archives: May 2017

Cultural Anxiety, Not Economic Anxiety, Drove White Working Class Voters to Trump – The Atlantic

“The enduring narrative of the American dream is that if you study and get a college education and work hard, you can get ahead,” said Robert P. Jones, the CEO of PRRI. “The survey shows that many white working-class Americans,

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George Will: Trump has a dangerous disability – The Washington Post

Americans have placed vast military power at the discretion of this mind, a presidential discretion that is largely immune to restraint by the Madisonian system of institutional checks and balances. So, it is up to the public to quarantine this

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Steve Paulson: Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute – Nautilus

Like many others, Penrose struggled with the weirdness of quantum theory. “As Schrödinger clearly pointed out with his poor cat, which was dead and alive at the same time, he made this point deliberately to show why his own equation

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The Honorable 47 Rogues of the Palpatine Era

Rogue One’s fish-eyed admirals running the space battles were far more credible figures than the Fisher’s sex dollish image clone – hallelujah!

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Trump’s dizzying day of interviews – POLITICO

President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen. He said he would be “honored” to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles

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