July 31, 2004
Hey, at least when I dissed Stephen Hawking I was kidding! (Actually, I was making fun of those in the Bush White House and the antiwar left who consider changing one's mind a sign of weakness. Apparently, either no one got it or no one cared.)
But Gregg Easterbrook appears to be serious. Has he gone completely off the rails? Doesn't someone at the New Republic read the stuff before it's printed? Easterbrook gone off the rails?
I'm with Brad DeLong on this one: TNR should fire Easterbrook and get someone who isn't a complete fool to write that column. Anyone who thinks physics ought to track common sense must have slept through the past three centuries.