I had not heard the name Peter Thiel until today. But the Google millionaire has just shelled out a down payment on a very interesting idea: seasteading.
Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth?
If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have [...]

Is the U.S. Army so focused on the here and now that it is failing to stay at the ready for possible future conflicts with conventional armies?
That is the question being asked by NPR’s Guy Raz in his article Army Focus on Counterinsurgency Debated Within.
Col. Sean MacFarland was among the first to successfully apply [...]

I’ve long known about Salman Rushdie, the Indian author who has lived under an Islamic death sentence since 1989. Maybe it is time for me to add The Satanic Verses or one of his other novels to my reading list.
He is the victim of renewed ire from the Muslim world because the British Empire recently [...]

Guy Sorman believes that China is not destined to be the next world superpower. He makes the case in an article entitled The Empire of Lies.
I pieced together the very ordinary reasons that had provoked the uprising from bits of information divulged by the children rather than the adults. The village had [...]

Not surprising at all. The reasons given are though.

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