My Favorite Books from 2020
“The only thing that goes against my pessimism is the fact that we still carry on thinking today.” – Max Horkheimer 2020 was a really great year…for books. For just … Continue reading
“The Tree of Science” an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “L’arbre de la science” [Part 3]
“Indeed, what is the seduction of the flesh beside the seduction of science? Nothing; for the seduction of the flesh may well ruin a man, a people, a nation, an … Continue reading
“The Tree of Science” an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “L’arbre de la science” [Part 2]
“Destruction by invasions is forever over; the barbarians who will put our human cycle in powder form will be the forces and energies of nature, these giants who have come … Continue reading
“The Tree of Science” an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “L’arbre de la Science” [Part 1]
When the locomotive of progress carries us away, it is quite permissible to ask the mechanics who direct it to be prudent and to moderate its speed before having assumed … Continue reading
COVID-19, COBOL, and Y2K
One of the grim ironies of a disaster is the way in which it reveals just how little has been learned from past disasters. In some cases, these unheeded lessons … Continue reading
What studying disasters has taught me about COVID-19
“Civilization, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice.” – Zygmunt Bauman. For the last several years, when people have asked me … Continue reading
My Favorite Books from 2019
“Hungry one, reach for the book—it is a weapon.” – Brecht Of all the problems with which a person may find themselves constantly wrestling, there are far worse things than … Continue reading
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