On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now exists, perhaps within a window of 50-100,000 years ago, a flick of an eye in evolutionary time.

Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there is a lot of progress. In many other domains, there is very little progress in developing real scientific understanding.

It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.