Sublime

foundations were laid in Victorian times. Now it is changing radically. Standard economics is suddenly being challenged by a number of new approaches: behavioral economics, neuroeconomics, new institutional economics. One of the new approaches came to life at the Santa Fe Institute: complexity economics.

Howard K. Smith, who fled Nazi Germany on the last train from Berlin before Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941; James Cameron, whose iconic 1946 report from the Bikini atom tests was perhaps the most literary and philosophical article ever published in a newspaper.

the U.S.

Varian Fry was a hero, but he was also a maverick who flew in the face of American policy.

Varian Fry.

every fifty years, we are reminded that no one stays a slave forever. Freedom comes to everyone, whether they want it or not.