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Jan 13, 2025 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church
“To succumb to pressure to suppress or disguise his true beliefs would have been, for Spinoza, a concession equivalent to defeatist self-abnegation.”n previous essays, I have explored in some detail how the dread of a pink slip in contemporary capitalist society exposes not only the anguish of anticipating financial hazards after losing a job, but also the existential self-doubts of losing the status that comes with having a “respectable” occupation.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
dx.doi.org | Jonathan Church |Ofir Blumer |Tommer D. Keidar |Leo Ploutno
IntroductionClick to copy section linkSection link copied!Molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful tool that is commonly employed to gain physical insights into complex chemical systems. Unfortunately, using standard MD to study processes which occur over time scales longer than a few microseconds, such as crystal nucleation and protein dynamics, is currently not feasible.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church
“Why, in fact, do we feel compelled to ask if capitalism is failing? Why do we wonder if capitalism is moral? Why do 57% of respondents in an Edelman Trust Barometer survey believe that ‘capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world?'”Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of short essays by Merion West contributing editor Jonathan Church exploring the idea of capitalism, as practiced today in the United States.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church
“For example, how many retirees can relate to Jack Nicholson’s professional exile in About Schmidt, a film about a man trying to find purpose after a career as an actuary, when the title character returns to the office one day in a pathetic last-ditch effort to show he is still relevant?”Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of short essays by Merion West contributing editor Jonathan Church exploring the idea of capitalism, as practiced today in the United States.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
freethinker.co.uk | Jonathan Church
More than three years have elapsed since former President Donald Trump nearly got former Vice President Mike Pence killed, if not by executive order (pun intended), then by sheer narcissistic disregard for Pence’s life.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church
“For Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher and notorious member of the Frankfurt School, Marx did us a service in trying to expose capitalism as a historically-contingent mode of production based on reified social relations that do not facilitate—in fact, impede—the harvesting of reason as the path to the flowering of human autonomy, and flourishing.”apitalism” may be the most contentious idea in the world today.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | Jonathan Church |Igor Schapiro |Dina Schneidman-Duhovny |Meitar Sela
Download Hi-Res ImageDownload to MS-PowerPointCite This:J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2024, XXXX, XXXRETURN TO ARTICLES ASAPMachine Learning and...Machine Learning and Deep LearningNEXTMeitar SelaThe Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel, Jonathan R. ChurchFritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics Research, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel, *, and *Cite this: J. Chem.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church |Erich Prince
“Rufo’s ‘New Right Activism’ is not the prescription of one who, following Socrates, seeks to be virtuous, but rather one who, following Faust, sacrifices his soul to achieve victory.”t is perhaps the most banal of truisms that politics is not about truth but, rather, about narrative. In the world of politics, it is easy to be cynical about the polemics of politicians, the judgment of journalists, and the antics of activists, grifters, hucksters, and talking heads who are in the game of spin.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church |Erich Prince
“[My book seeks to] disrupt science in the sense that it gets us away from the myth that doing more physics and chemistry will be the answer to understanding the living and, in particular, the human being.” n January 15th, Dr. Mihai Nadin, an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas, joined Merion West contributing editor Jonathan Church for a discussion about Dr. Nadin’s new book Disrupt Science: The Future Matters and the nature of what he calls...
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
merionwest.com | Jonathan Church |Erich Prince
“I have written previously that much of this ‘neoliberal’ nightmare is a myth, not because the world is without problems, but because the problems of the world are much too multifaceted, internally complex, and situationally unique for each problem to regarded as just another mutation of an invincible neoliberal virus replicating across the globe.” n the view of certain partisans on the Right, the chickens finally came home to roost following the horrific events of October 7th, when two...
