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Existential Hope

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I was introduced to Allison a couple years ago, but only briefly. I really only got to know her a few days ago, at a Foresight event on lunar governance. I hadn’t realized that she was so interested in space.

Anyway, she is a brilliant and very charismatic young woman, as this video demonstrates.

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THe WW II Museum

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A review from a friend:

***** and I went to the WW2 museum in New Orleans. Brand new, big, still expanding, expensive and boring. The Germans and Japanese were bad; Roosevelt was good; it was all very sad.

Nothing about the Hitler Stalin pact. Nothing about the role the CP played to keep us neutral, until Uncle Joe got attacked. And Roosevelt’s concentration camps? The American people did it, not Roosevelt’s executive order (funny how that works).

It was shallow, not much to look at (the captions and film shorts looked like they were written for Sesame Street), and relentlessly politically correct.

I usually think I will spend an hour or two in a museum, and end up spending the whole day; this time, we payed parking for the whole day, and left after two hours.

Not recommended.

But, we had dinner in the Neon Pig restaurant in Tupelo. Best hamburger in the world!

Well, glad he enjoyed the burger.

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The Socialist Temptation

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Last time I was in DC, a couple weeks ago, I tried to have lunch with Iain Murray, but it turned out that he wasn’t downtown, but was at home writing a forthcoming book.

It seems a little spendy, though, if you want to get young people to read it (which should be the goal). Maybe they’ll also have an ebook.

[Update a while later]

If you click here, you’ll tell the publisher that you’d like to see a Kindle edition.