Category: 42.2 Logic

Kurt Gödel, a 20th century mathematician and logician, is regarded as one of history’s greatest scientific minds. His most notable works are his two “Incompleteness Theorems,” published by Gödel in 1931 at the age of 24, which are the most important logical proofs of the century. In short, Gödel showed that any system of knowledge […]

I began writing this on February 26, the thirteenth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death. Years have passed and the same question remains: freedom to, or freedom from? Said juxtaposition frames the entire relationship society had with the murder of Travyon Martin — although I know the jury didn’t view it that way. Did Travyon Martin […]

Benjamin Franklin’s saying, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes,” underscores the inevitability of aging and mortality — topics many prefer to avoid. Despite a reluctance to discuss aging, cognitive decline, and mortality, age became a highly contentious issue in the 2024 presidential election. When Joe Biden was still in the race at 81 years […]

We’ve reached the three-year mark of Putin’s three-day lightning strike to seize Ukraine. Evidently, Russia is hardly the superpower that we thought it was. What’s more interesting is that it’s not just Russia: over the past few years, a number of anti-democratic regimes have revealed that the West overestimated its strength. It’s worth understanding why […]

After three and a half years of economic stagnation, rising prices, and political infighting, outgoing Chancellor Olaf Sholz’s tenure atop the German government ended with a whimper. Leaving office with a 20% approval rating, Sholz presided over the worst electoral result in his party’s history, as the Social Democrats (SPD) cratered to just 16% of […]