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The Progressive | Peace and social justice since 1909 The Centre for Future Studies Monocolumn It’s been one long 70-year wait but it looks like Sydney-siders can celebrate – the city is finally getting a second airport. The federal government has approved a AU$2.4bn (€1.6bn) plan for the new site that will be built west of the city at an area called Badgerys Creek. The plan is to let the airport operate 24-hours-a-day – solving what airlines say is a critical problem with the capacity at Sydney’s current hub, Kingsford Smith airport. Airlines, businesses and government leaders are all applauding the move. “Sydney is the key gateway for air traffic in and out of Australia and the benefits of having two major airports will be felt nationwide,” says Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas. Supporters want to see the airport operating throughout the night. The key concern though will be how planners link up the new airport with the rest of the city. It’s good to have a fantastic new hub but without transport links that are fast and inexpensive it will be a disaster before the first flight lands.
The American Scholar, the magazine of the Phi Beta Kappa Society Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas History « Future PLC With operations in the UK, US and Australia, Future has come a long way from its humble beginnings. Founded in 1985 as a UK company with just one magazine, today Future specialises in high-quality multi-media products, creating over 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. From an idea for one computer magazine to an international multi-platform media group, Future has been built on a creative, innovative and competitive culture. Some of the significant landmarks in the growth of Future include: 1985 Chris Anderson founds Future Publishing with a £10,000 bank loan. The Bath-based company’s first magazine, Amstrad Action, is launched with 100 pages and a print run of 40,000 copies.1987 Future is the first British magazine to covermount a computer diskette every month, a move which helps accelerate its growth in circulation and advertising. 1992 The company launches titles outside of the computer market, including Cycling Plus. June August September October November February April
The National Security Archive Skeptical Inquirer Index Jewish Genius Since its first issue in 1945, COMMENTARY has published hundreds of articles about Jews and Judaism. As one would expect, they cover just about every important aspect of the topic. But there is a lacuna, and not one involving some obscure bit of Judaica. COMMENTARY has never published a systematic discussion of one of the most obvious topics of all: the extravagant overrepresentation of Jews, relative to their numbers, in the top ranks of the arts, sciences, law, medicine, finance, entrepreneurship, and the media. I have personal experience with the reluctance of Jews to talk about Jewish accomplishment—my co-author, the late Richard Herrnstein, gently resisted the paragraphs on Jewish IQ that I insisted on putting in The Bell Curve (1994). And so this Scots-Irish Gentile from Iowa hereby undertakes to tell the story. But religious literature is the exception. Generally speaking, this remained the case well into the Renaissance and beyond. What accounts for this remarkable record?
New Left Review - NLR 82, July-August 2013