Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – From Spy Satellites to Peace Satellites
Modern warfare has produced a remarkable paradox. Never before have governments possessed such detailed knowledge of events unfolding across the ...
Thursday, July 9, 2026
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Coffee Break: Apathetic Americans, Science Agonistes, and Cool Science
Part the First: Jessica Wildfire on Apathetic Americans. As a paid-up member of the Professional Managerial Class who came from ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Peace Power and Trust Engineering
In the previous Armed Madhouse article, I argued that War Power has evolved into a self-reinforcing institutional ecosystem whose incentives ...
Coffee Break: Against AI, Stem Cells, Cancer Chemotherapy, A Note on Louis Pasteur
Part the First: More Cognitive Surrender Where It Just Won’t Do. Last week we considered an essay on AI that ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trust Destruction and Nuclear Roulette
The discussion of war has changed remarkably little since antiquity. Historians, military strategists, and political leaders still evaluate conflict using ...
Coffee Break: More on American Science, An NIH Grant Long Overdue, An Experimental Model, and Further Thoughts on AI
Part the First: Back to the Past in Science and Medicine. The future of basic science in the United States ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Unicorns versus Dinosaurs
A growing chorus of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and technology enthusiasts argues that the American defense establishment is overdue ...
Coffee Break: American Science in Distress, Technology vs. Community, and the Restaurant Problem Solved
Part the First: The Sabotage of American Science. For much of the past forty years I have been in the ...
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Israel’s Buffer Defense Quandary
Buffer zones are among the oldest concepts in military strategy. States facing persistent threats have long sought to place distance ...
Coffee Break: Theology at Work in the World, Eugenics Is Still Undead, Science Is Still Under Attack, and Ultra-Processed Foods in the Dock
Part the First: Pope Leo XIV and the Larger World. Of the academic historians currently writing for both their colleagues ...
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