The article below was written quite a few years back when I was working as an atomic physicist. It still rings true today…

ABRAHAM PAIS relates in his biography of Niels Bohr that the renowned Danish
physicist once claimed to a friend: “I have made a great discovery, a very great
discovery. All that philosophers have ever written is pure drivel!” Continue reading →

My review of Stephan Lessenich’s great new book ‘Living Well at Others’ Expense’ appears in the Irish Times today. It is an insightful and challenging book in which he argues convincingly that global inequality is not simply the fault of the richest 1%. Instead, today’s model of global capitalism means that we are all complicit. Read my review here.