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^{The Bradley Center
February 24, 2022
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

_{The Bradley Center
February 24, 2022
Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters. The lessons of history that this country — indeed the West as a whole — urgently need to learn, if we want to handle the next crisis better, and to avoid the ultimate doom of irreversible decline. Read More ›

^{Matt Rosenberg
October 21, 2008
Cascadia}

How To Pay For The Roads Still Traveled

_{Matt Rosenberg
October 21, 2008
Cascadia}

I had a telling conversation with an old friend several months ago, a devoted environmentalist who’s a community college biology teacher living south of San Francisco in a pleasant small town abutting the Pacific. I don’t recall how it came up, but she declared, “We’ve just got to get more people out of their cars.” Then came a pregnant pause, Read More ›