Things sure do look like they're going to ruin on planet Earth at the moment: Russia seems intent on provocatively escalating its saber rattling in the Baltic, Syria and Ukraine. China is aggressively asserting its hegemonic claims in the South China Sea and seems to have incomprehensibly large domestic debt problems. Iran is now actively developing a nuclear warhead capability, unrestrained by the international community. North Korea is testing nuclear capable ballistic missiles that can reach Japan and beyond. The interminable war with Islamic extremism intensifies yet again. This time its Mosul, Iraq. Aleppo, Syria is being bombed into oblivion in the proxy millennial war between Sunni and Shiite Britain has voted to Brexit. France is on a path to electing Marine Le Pen. Academia in the West is progressively and inexorably losing whatever slight grip it may have had on reality. Each day we seem to read yet another story of an educational institution abrogating its re
Stirring grist, grizzle and gore to flavour the stew.