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The Short Run is Too Short 9 Aug 2013 | 12:41 am
Kevin O'Rourke on Europe's latest (self-)torture instrument: So where the eurozone needs to go in the long run, we argue, is towards a genuine banking union; a eurozone-wide safe bond to break the so...
Lunar Lament 4 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
"...the lunar landers scattered across the face of the Moon stare back blindly at a nation that no longer has a manned space program at all and, despite fitful outbursts of rhetoric from politicians a...
Faith in the Future 3 Aug 2013 | 09:16 pm
I had the great honour of speaking at the MacGill Summer School yesterday. And the even greater pleasure of meeting Joe Mulholland, the man responsible for this remarkable event. Below is the text of...
Donegal Reflections 29 Jul 2013 | 12:32 am
I've never known the sea so calm around Donegal. I took this photo of the harbour in Dunfanaghy this morning with my S4: Just before the rain came...
Modernity's Mythology 19 Jul 2013 | 12:47 pm
Another gem from John Michael Greer: Progress, as the word literally means, is continued forward motion in one direction. To believers in the civil religion of progress, that’s the shape of history: ...
The Economics of Sunshine 14 Jul 2013 | 09:40 pm
It's not often you see this in Ireland: I was so surprised by the weather forecast on RTE the other evening that I hit the pause button and took a photograph. One for the grandchildren perhaps... Fu...
Chicken Little Scenarios 10 Jul 2013 | 10:11 pm
Reading the ESRI's three scenarios for 2013-2020, I did find myself wondering where's the 'positive scenario'? Even their 'Recovery Scenario' suggests that maybe only half the sky will fall. Ho hum. ...
Little Pink Book 6 Jul 2013 | 10:23 pm
Even some on the Left are worried about the tone of the same sex marriage debate - it's all starting to smack of the Cultural Revolution: Reasonable people can disagree on the substantive question of...
America the Protestant 5 Jul 2013 | 02:42 pm
Spot the pattern (via Lew Rockwell): Some Independence Day thoughts from Charles Hugh-Smith: I submit that the next American Revolution circa 2021-23 will not repeat or even echo these past transiti...
Dissent is Information 1 Jul 2013 | 06:14 pm
Might explain Ireland's banking disaster better than most: Eliminate or marginalize dissent and you've deprived the system of critical information. Lacking a wealth of information, the system becomes...
