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Nature Abhors a Vacuum. So We Filled It With Missiles. By Lawson Akhigbe
There is an old and reliable principle in physics: nature abhors a vacuum. Where there is nothing, something will rush in. The question has always been what. For a brief and almost convincing moment, the answer appeared to be progress — climate action, social justice, economic empowerment blinking into their earliest spring. Then the world …
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A Most Earnest Epistle to the Honourable Mr. Donald J. Trump by Sir Thomas More
A Letter to Mr. Donald J. Trump | Lawson Akhigbe Being the views of Sir Thomas More, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England,on the matter of Unjust Wars, Territorial Ambition, and the Moral Poverty of Conquest ⸻ ✦ ⸻ From: Sir Thomas More, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England (retired, involuntarily).Tower of London, Anno Domini 1534. Forwarded …
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Otherwise Clutter?
Do you believe in minimalism? Of course one wouldn't engage in wasteful purchases. Minimalism is the way and environmentally sound. Less is more
The Dynamics of Africa
List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? A brilliant, heavy-hitting trio of books. They stretch across different eras, regions, and genres, they all powerfully map out exactly the complete, complex humanity of Africans, and the systemic forces, both historical and ongoing, that have tried to diminish it. Each of these texts …
The Great British Housing Farce: From Council Castles to Renter’s Rights — A Comedy in Several Acts by Lawson Akhigbe
Margaret Thatcher There is a particular genus of political problem that thrives not on its insolubility but on the extraordinary usefulness of its apparent insolubility. The British housing crisis is the finest specimen of this genus in modern democratic history. It has survived Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (briefly, like a mayfly with …

