An analysis of how two of Peter Handke's books tried to minimize and excuse the well-documented massacres of Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs.

One important point is that the existence of a prior state of war does not justify committing a war crime.

When bureaucrats are told to find reasons to deny benefits to the poor and sick, your politeness and even the bureaucrats' own mistakes become excuses to put you in the wrong.

The approval of "golden rice", which supplies Vitamin A, has been delayed for 20 years by regulation.

I find it plausible that this rice will, in medical terms, help people and not cause harm. This does need to be verified; perhaps it has been.

But does it carry nonbiological pollution — with patents, or plant variety monopolies? Are farmers allowed to save the seeds and plant them?

Why you should worry if you have a Chinese smartphone.

If you have a non-Chinese smartphone, you should worry too. Other countries are moving rapidly in the direction of massive surveillance used to control and repress, and the system developers (Google and Apple) don't respect freedom much either.

About 41% of the world's people are under 24. And they're angry…

One of the valid reasons for them to be angry at older people is for having made so many people under 24. It is hard to give a good life, in a sustainable way, to such a large population. Our population is living unsustainably and it is still increasing.

This is one underlying cause of many of the specific hardships that people are protesting about. The other underlying cause is inequality, which protects the privileged (and especially the wealthy) from these hardships by dumping them entirely onto the disprivileged and the poor.

Reducing inequality is a just cause, but we also need to reduce the cost of our existence, and doing that without making everyone poor will be much easier if we have fewer humans in the future.

Let's aim for 25% or less of the population under age 24.