I am looking for people to help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.

The habits of thinking of the past few thousand years have brought humanity to a crisis which threatens a mass extinction. We need to change some of them.

Martin Shkreli defended his bullying and greed, saying that they are the way people succeed in America. Sentencing him to prison is not enough; we have to change America so that his claim ceases to be true.

Britons are nostalgic for the British Empire based on a one-sided picture which the peoples of the former colonies do not agree with.

It is ironic that colonial laws imposed to help Britain repress the colonized people are now being used by some of them to repress others of them. One of these laws was imprisonment without trial. In South Africa it was used by the apartheid state to imprison those who criticized apartheid. In Israel it is used today to imprison Palestinians.

I disagree with the claim that the evacuation of Dunkirk was an "ignoble retreat". It was a retreat, for sure, but there is nothing ignoble about retreating in good order. Sometimes — as in the case of Dunkirk — retreating is exactly what an army needs to do to win the war. A good commander must have the moral courage to retreat when necessary.

Six months undercover in the world of precarious work. It's not enough for the workers to do their jobs; they are required to spout the ideology of devotion to the company.