Physicist at Large

 I'm reading Leviathan by Hobbes. I previously read about Hobbes in Mark Lilla's The Stillborn God , and now I'm reading the o...

 Long time no post, but I'm back to say that I was just published in Newsweek ! My article is a critique of a rather bizarre physics edu...

I just read Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu. It's an admirably compact read, taking only as many pages as it actually needs in order to...

Chapter 1 is a summary of the book. At the top of the second page he mentions the question that white people pose: "How does it feel to...

I finished McWhorter's Woke Racism. A lot of it is stuff I've heard before and agreed with before, and thus it didn't jump out a...

I'm currently reading Woke Racism by John McWhorter. It's a critique of "wokeness", the latest name for political correctn...

There's a lot of history and data that wasn't exactly familiar but wasn't necessarily surprising either, so it didn't really...