Space Race, Electric Cars and Climate Change: Elon Musk’s Misguided Bid for South American Access and Resources


If anything, Elon Musk’s recent trip to South America demonstrates the futility of attempting to solve the climate crisis by means of technological innovation.  Heading to Brazil, the Tesla billionaire and SpaceX chief executive met with President Jair Bolsonaro, as well as prominent business leaders and high-ranking military officers.  Reportedly, […]

Mutants


When you’re not cognizant of your own unique and underlying psychological particularities, to say nothing of self-destructive pitfalls, things have a way of spiraling downwards, until life’s various impasses and quandaries become so fraught as to be undeniable.  I see this all more clearly now in my slightly mature years, […]

Masking


How could it be, Schreiber wondered?  It was difficult to absorb the magnitude of what he had just heard.  Waiting for the Q train at the 34th Street station, he mused over some of the technical terms the psychologist had employed, such as “cognitive inflexibility.”  In light of the diagnosis, […]

Evolution


“For weeks,” Mr. Hernández intoned, “I have been apprising you of an impending grisly experiment, and now the time has finally arrived!”  Filing into science hall, the students were greeted by the bracing smell of formaldehyde.  Spread out on tables were a dozen pans covered in plastic.  Walking over to […]

Anti-Semitism in Argentina: An Eyewitness Report


In the midst of writing about the rising tide of anti-Semitism in my own native borough of Brooklyn, I was recently taken aback to read about an attack on a local rabbi in Buenos Aires.  The incident spurred concern in Argentina, which is home to more than 180,000 Jews, that […]

Travels in Argentina: From Gauchos to Freemasons and More


In the town of San Antonio de Areco, locals celebrate their historic gaucho heritage. In the pampas, vegetation is sparse and desolate. Back in Buenos Aires, the botanical garden displays vegetation more common to the coast. Nearby, a freemason temple brings together a fraternity of men in the downtown area. […]

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