By Myron Pauli Twenty years ago, I met a Yugoslavian physicist visiting MIT who assured all that Yugoslavia would not collapse into civil war and that only a few “kooks” were stirring up ethnic antagonism. It turned out he knew his quantum chromodynamics better than his kinsmen. Similarly, when I saw übercynic Fred Reed’s portents […Read On]
IMMIGRATION, Israel, libertarianism, Private Property, Terrorism
This is “scary stuff,” writes BAB contributor Myron Pauli. “I wonder what the Open-Borders crowd thinks about this ‘right’ to travel into Israel to kill and kidnap people.” Myron was referring to the WaPo’s “How Hamas uses its tunnels to kill and capture Israeli soldiers”: It was a Monday in October 2013 when residents of […Read On]
America, BAB's A List, Constitution, History, Individual Rights
Some independence: It’s “EZ-Pass up our a-s,” says Myron Robert Pauli, Ph.D. 238 years ago in Philadelphia, a group of Americans adopted the world’s most famous grievance list against the British Empire and declared our independence. As Thomas Jefferson stated, “… unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. – […Read On]
To say that “Science needs women” is as logically consistent as saying that, “‘Heavyweight boxing needs Malays,’ ‘Football needs dwarf goalkeepers,”Quantity surveying needs bisexuals,’ ‘Lavatory cleaning needs left-handers’ …” The above logical parallels make the absurdity of the argument for more women in science “immediately apparent,” reasons Theodore Dalrymple. Science does not need women any […Read On]