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I occasionally — too occasionally — get the opportunity to pass public comment on the state of affairs in math and the physical sciences.
| Date | Place | Title | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2014 | VDARE | Debunking a Diversity "Theorem" and Fixing New York City Schools | Math, diversity, and my new kitchen table. |
| July 20, 2014 | VDARE | Race and the International Math Olympiad | Some in-your-face HBD facts. |
| March 6, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | Skepticism's Proper Target | Jeer politicians, not scientists. |
| September 1, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Al Gore's Dream of Power | Climate change is the health of the state. |
| April 13, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | End of a Dream | Manned space flight fades away. |
| February 17, 2011 | Taki's Magazine | Measuring the World | Rods, roods, noggins, and guineas. |
| November 30, 2009 | NRO | Trust Science | But not necessarily scientists. |
| Spring 2007 | The Wilson Quarterly | Euler's Constancy | Leonhard Euler, an Enlightenment great. |
| June 5, 2006 | NRO | Space Is For Science | Not for shuttles, stations, or "visions." |
| August 30, 2005 | NRO | Teaching Science | Conservatively, from consensus. |
| April 21, 2005 | NRO | Lady of the Rings | Emmy Noether. |
| March 2004 | FOCUS (the monthly newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America) |
So You Want to Write a Pop-Math Book? |
How it's done. |
| January 20, 2004 | NRO | Per Ardua ad Astra | Human beings in space? Why? |
| March 17, 2003 | NRO | The Big Picture | Contemplating the universe. |
| February 24, 2003 | National Review | After Columbia | The second space shuttle disaster. |
| July 2, 2002 | NRO | Post Authorial Tristesse | A load off my mind. |
| June 4, 2002 | NRO | In the Zone | Pocket-protector sniffer. |
| May 8, 2002 | NRO | Road Warrior | A weekend away from home. |
| May 10, 2001 | NRO | The Thin Gnat-Voices | Millionaire in space. |
| June 5, 2000 | National Review | The Hardest "R" | The teaching of mathematics. |
| October 1997 | Mathematics Magazine | Repeated Powers: A Comment in Verse |
A sonnet commenting on an article about repeated exponentiation. |