Andrew Fox

1 month ago | quillette.com | Dave Thompson |Benny Morris |Lawrence Krauss |Andrew Fox

It was David Bowie who said that it doesn’t matter who does something first, it’s whoever does it second that history remembers. Bowie was specifically answering the charge that he had lifted his act from then-obscure bands like the Velvets and the Stooges. But he wasn’t wrong about the general principle. Indeed, we were provided with an example of Bowie’s rule of thumb just a few months ago, when Rolling Stone reviewed the omnibus sized box-set of Bob Dylan’s 1974 US tour.

1 month ago | quillette.com | Lawrence Krauss |Andrew Fox |Ira Wells |Jonathan Kay

When my daughter was in grade four, she was instructed to write about a planet of her choice. She chose Pluto. Alas, about fifteen years later, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet—partly because it’s just one of a number of similarly sized objects in an area of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt.