Month: November 2021

German Seafarers, Anti-Fascism and the Anti-Stalinist Left: The ‘Antwerp Group’ and Edo Fimmen’s International Transportworkers Federation, 1933-1940

By Jonathan Hyslop In the period from the mid-1930s to the beginning of the Second World War, a group of German seamen based in Antwerp combined with Amsterdam-based Edo Fimmen, Secretary of the International Transportworkers Federation, to wage a campaign against the Nazi government amongst the sailors of […]

The Future of the Internet

By Raphael Cohen-Almagor We have a universally interconnected electronic communication system based on a variety of linkable electronic carriers, using radio, cable, microwave, optical ber, and satellites, and delivering to every home and office a vast variety of different kinds of mail, print, sound, and video, through an […]

Urban Life on Mars?

By Sarah Holder, Bloomberg In October, an international cohort of thinkers beamed into the virtual 2021 conference of the Mars Society, which has advocated colonizing the planet since 1998. In an age of low-cost rocket launches and Shatner space jaunts, it was a sign of how attainable the […]

The Amendment That Remade America

By Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal The First? The Second? No, the 14th—the basis for every claim against a state government for violating individual rights. Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick say it’s time to assert its original meaning. What’s the most important amendment to the U.S. Constitution? The […]