RIP. He will be missed.
Little-known fact: He was a big fan of space. He was on the board of The Space Foundation. He never used email, but I sent some stuff to him once via his wife, and he wrote a nice letter thanking me.
[Update late afternoon]
John Podhoretz remembers him.
[Update Wednesday morning]
This kind of thing is why he was a national treasure.
[Monday update]
Matt Labash remembers him, as does Jonathan Last.
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…looks worse and worse.
But he doubles down in defending it.
It’s not just about the vaccine mandates. They’re the new “deplorables,” and they don’t like it.
A long and depressing compendium of the forces that continue to be arrayed against liberty.
The Pentagon is still too reluctant to rely on commercial space services.
Unlike Gleen Greenwald, I use scare quotes because people who think and behave like this are the farthest thing from actual liberals.
Mike Rogers is concerned.
But he doesn’t lay out any vision or goals of what we should be trying to accomplish. He’s stuck in Sputnic/Apollo mode. It’s just that the race (for whatever it is) is now with China, instead of the USSR.
Maybe I should write an editorial response.
Thoughts from Spengler on the sad future of Ukraine, regardless of what Russia does.
If we’re going to be servicing satellites (and we are), we have to accept the dual use of the technology. Space is a place.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Space News.
[Update a while later]
China’s plans to dominate space.