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Quantum deception attempts turning water into wine

Thus the technique can in principle make lead appear like gold. In practice it’s hard, not least because the control field must

August 14, 2025

Philip Ball

Opinion

In Praise of Idleness

So, dear readers, be not coy, and tell time's winged chariot to get off your back. Summer's lease hath all too short

August 14, 2025

Keith Whitaker

Opinion

Strauss’s Escape from Plato’s Cave

At best, as Strauss put it in Persecution and the Art of Writing, one can then have only “pseudo-philosophies,” rooted in a

August 13, 2025

David Lewis Schaefer

World

Fewer cradles, more canes: East Asia’s demographic reckoning

The demographic crisis spans East Asia, but so does the opportunity for solutions. Japan’s experience as the leading edge offers both warnings

August 13, 2025

Y. Tony Yang

World

Europe and Ukraine: Defeat of Moscow a miscalculation of Napoleonic proportions

Alaska may not give birth to a new world order, but it could offer a pause, a moment to halt the carnage

August 13, 2025

Konstantinos Bogdanos

World

On the Upcoming Trump-Putin Summit and Tariffs on India

It’s possible that the upcoming meeting could be promising but not decisive. It’s possible Putin will continue his negotiating strategy of delaying

August 13, 2025

George Friedman

World

Will the US Invade Mexico?

Trump may be bluffing here, but with his economic policies in deep trouble and the Epstein affair not going away, I think

August 12, 2025

Mel Gurtov

Economy

Spend, kill, earn: Senator Graham’s business

Graham’s story is one of systematic and legalized corruption: a man who has turned his Senate seat into a conduit for his

August 11, 2025

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

World

China’s increased military

All of these military advancements have given Beijing greater confidence as well as making the strategic position of the US and its

August 11, 2025

Tom Harper

World

Iran’s next act?

Whether the next Iran-related emergency involves an even more destructive and direct US-Israeli attack on Iran, or a surge of destabilizing unrest

August 10, 2025

Willis Sparks

Quantum deception attempts turning water into wine

Strauss’s Escape from Plato’s Cave

Fewer cradles, more canes: East Asia’s demographic reckoning

Europe and Ukraine: Defeat of Moscow a miscalculation of Napoleonic proportions

On the Upcoming Trump-Putin Summit and Tariffs on India

Will the US Invade Mexico?

Spend, kill, earn: Senator Graham’s business

China’s increased military

Iran’s next act?

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