Aligica & Boettke argue the crisis of liberal democracy cannot be solved by rebuilding cultural or ideological consensus. Instead, classical liberals should return to the tradition's founding insight: liberalism emerged as a response to deep pluralism after the Wars of Religion, and the answer then — as now — lies in institutional arra...

The simplest universal computer A popular account of Wolfram's 2,3 machine and Alex Smith's 2007 proof. Based on: The Prize Is Won; The Simplest Universal Turing Machine Is Proved—Stephen Wolfram Writings. The $25,000 question In May 2007, Stephen Wolfram — physicist, software entrepreneur, and author of the 1,200-page tome A New Kind ...