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Industrial Archeology, Hacker Tourism, and How Building the Internet Worked Circa 1996

Let’s say you’re reading this in Egypt, or Hong Kong, or London. How exactly do bits and bytes get from this web server (somewhere in California) to your far-flung screen? It’s not satellites or magic, but it is crazy. There’s … Continue reading

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Some Problems With Dismissing Science, Critical Theory, and Sustainability

In the third paragraph of his lengthy and provocative article on “Science and the Left” in the Winter issue of The New Atlantis, senior editor Yuval Levin swiftly dismisses five headline-grabbing objections raised in recent years to conservative blindness on … Continue reading

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