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Category Archives: Business
Slapping Down The Censors
A court has ruled that plaintiffs are likely to win a suit against the administration, and granted an injunction against its communicating with social media companies.
[Update a while later]
Thoughts from Don Surber.
Due Process On Campus
A major ruling against Yale that could restore sanity to other institutions.
Our New Space Race
A review of Ashlee Vance’s latest book. Highly recommended.
AI
Why it will save the world.
Not hot off the press, but worth a read from a smart guy.
Astra Carta
Bob Zimmerman isn’t impressed.
The Affirmative-Action Decision
Thoughts from Gail Heriot and Glenn Reynolds. And some reactions from Manhattan Institute scholars.
[Update a while later]
Clarence Thomas versus affirmative-action hire Ketanji Brown Jackson.
[Friday-morning update]
Jackson’s dissent is an argument for institutional racism. And she wasn’t happy with Thomas.
[Late-morning update]
Sorry, link is fixed on the institutional-racism thing.
The Global Space Race
Assif Siddiqui says that we need new ways to think about it: “We need to let go of our nostalgia for Apollo and move on and work with different models to the old 1960s space races.”
I’ve been saying this for years.
The Oceangate Disaster
An unofficial assessment from a submarine captain.
Rickover built a hell of an underwater navy, but basing the nuclear-power industry on submarine designs has been a mess.
SpaceX Update
Stephen Clark has moved over to Ars Technica to help Eric Berger cover the increasingly busy space industry. He has the latest on plans for the next Starship attempt.