A couple more items of interest, found in between trying to learn how to surf and going to a water park:
John Horgan explains why he is "becoming a pro-nuke nut," at Scientific American, in one example of what I'd bet will be a major and consequential political realignment in the next decade or so.
David Frum doesn't like Destiny Disrupted as much as I did, though our impressions are not altogther different.