Adam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received it. Earlier this year, Riess, who is now in his early 50s, pulled a graph-paper notebook off a bookshelf in his office at Johns Hopkins University so that I could see the yellowing page on which he’d made his famous calculations. He told me how these pen scratches led to a new theory of the universe. And then he told me why he now thinks that theory might be wrong.

Today is the 139th anniversary of Randolph Bourne’s birthday. Antiwar.com named its parent institute for this early 20th century antiwar activist. Read Jeff Riggenbach’s biography of Bourne.

[Transcribed from the Libertarian Tradition podcast episode “Randolph Bourne (1886–1918)”]

Senate Republicans and their majority leader are Johnny-on-the-spot when it comes to punishing Russia with sanctions after bad Vlad Putin and crew upped their missile strikes against Ukraine. Political strongmen tend to get a little testy when they suspect the countries they’re attacking of trying to blow them up. 

Tech billionaire Elon Musk, head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has announced that he will no longer serve as a government employee. The statement comes amid reports of a growing rift between Musk and President Donald Trump.

Trump established DOGE to identify and eliminate wasteful spending as part of his effort to make the federal government more responsive to everyday Americans. Musk’s organization, which is not a federal agency in the traditional sense, has overseen the elimination of grants and programs, as well as the termination of government jobs. Trump has also used DOGE to dismantle the Department of Education and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

US President Donald Trump has banned international students from attending Harvard University, citing national security concerns.

The move has sparked widespread condemnation from academics and foreign governments, who warn it could damage America’s global influence and reputation for academic openness. At stake is not just Harvard’s global appeal, but the very premise of open academic exchange that has long defined elite higher education in the US.

Elite Western universities form a corrupt and parasitic empire
Instead of high-quality education, these institutions are fostering a global neo-feudal system reminiscent of the British Raj

BY Mathew Maavak

March 23rd, 2023: Fox News host Greg Gutfeld doused the woke climate change cult in a heavy layer of sarcasm on Wednesday night’s Gutfeld! as he ridiculed a New York Times hypocritical doom and gloom take on the latest UN climate report. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq3SxyKq9nM

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has provided details on Russia’s conditions for ceasefire and peace talks. Reuters are also reporting on what three sources from Russia are saying about Russia’s conditions to end the war. Essentially the Russians want Ukraine to remain neutral and a non-nuclear state. Friedrich Merz has made an announcement regarding Nord-Stream 2 pipeline and has vowed to close it down, so that Germany will support Ukraine. Also, Friedrich Merz has stated that Germany will do everything in its power regarding sanctions on Russia and the delivery of Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

Patrick Dodson stands on a headland above Broome’s Simpsons Beach, a picturesque spot for tourists to capture images of the red pindan country, azure waters and mangrove stands. In Dodson’s youth, it was an important place for sustaining Aboriginal people. “My uncles would walk along here looking for turtle eggs, crabs, anything they could bring home to eat.” He adds, grinning: “It was also where all the offal and blood were discharged into the sea from the back of the old meatworks. Every shark in north-west Australia decided it was the place to be!”

Find things in common’: After a cancer shock, Pat Dodson has words of hope

Less than two years ago, Pat Dodson was confronting death. Now the former Labor senator and Father of Reconciliation is back with a message for those who felt defeated after the Voice.

IN 30 YEARS, IT WILL BE PROVEN BEYOND DOUBT THAT THE HAMAS INCURSION INTO ISRAEL ON OCTOBER 7 2023 WAS THE DEVIOUS WORK OF NETANYAHU... MEANWHILE, EVEN SO, NO-ONE SHOULD DEFEND ISRAEL MURDERS OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA. YET A RABBI THINKS "OTHERWISE"...  

Rabbi

You come home after a long day. Maybe from work, trying to raise kids, putting food on the table. You just want a bit of peace. Maybe a bit of footy. You scroll through social media or glance at the headlines.

Tony Abbott is demanding Opposition Leader Sussan Ley persist with Peter Dutton’s clean-up of the Liberal Party’s biggest state division, a challenge that threatens to inflame factional tensions stemming from her frontbench cull.

As the newly minted Liberal leader prepares to decide next week on the future of the NSW Liberals, the former prime minister urged her to defy loyalists by pushing on with a federal takeover of the troubled state outfit, in one of the first major tests of her authority.

A key Trump administration official has claimed that left-wing Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the shots on the Biden administration’s restrictive approach to cryptocurrencies.

White House artificial intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks argued Tuesday night that Warren (D-Mass.) has a “pathological hatred” for crypto and pushed the Biden administration to suppress the nascent technology.

Jeux de mains, jeux de vilains… Hand games always end badly: This saying is very old; possibly originated in the Middle Ages, when hunting and military exercises were only permitted to the nobility, while peasants, then called villains, fought with their arms and hands.

Duels at that time were fought with swords but were only suitable for the aristocracy, and the villains settled quarrels only with their fists or sticks.

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BY Rachel Marsden

Macron has been slapped in the face in more ways than one
Whatever happened between the French president and his wife on their trip to Vietnam, it completely overshadowed the politics of the visit

Ukraine: Merz announces long-range weapons with Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin to discuss further military support. Follow DW for updates.

China has never explicitly condemned the attacks of October 7. In China’s view, October 7 can’t be separated from the more than seven decades of Israeli brutality, apartheid and occupation. Naturally, this has drawn harsh criticism from Israel which expressed its “deep disappointment” over China’s refusal to repudiate Hamas. Even so, China has not caved in to Israeli pressure or softened its rhetoric.

The US presidential envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has accused former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of warmongering, following Medvedev’s warning that the tensions with the US could escalate into World War III.

Medvedev, who now serves as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, made the remarks in response to comments by US President Donald Trump.

“Stoking fears of WWIII is an unfortunate, reckless comment by [Medvedev] and unfitting of a world power,” Kellogg wrote on X on Wednesday. He added, “President Trump is working to stop this war and end the killing.”

Kellogg said the US is awaiting Russia’s submission of a memorandum outlining its terms for a ceasefire, as agreed during the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks in three years, held in Istanbul earlier this month.