The most troubling development in American politics today is the rise of the radical Left.  Ideas that were once grounds for FBI scrutiny or social ostracism are now celebrated by misguided politicians and voters.  Despite their lofty rhetoric about social justice, the inevitable direction of this movement is destruction. The universe is shaped by a conflict between life and entropy, between order and chaos.  According the Second Law of Thermodynamics, energy is always wasted as it is transformed, and the natural tendency of a closed system is to degenerate into a more disordered state.  The end state of entropy is heat death, which corresponds to everything being spread out uniformly, without complexity, life, or change.  Entropy permeates the universe and is the bane of the human condition. There is much disagreement about the origin of life, but we can think of life as a counterweight to entropy — the struggle to...(Read Full Post)