Four hundred years ago on Tuesday, an Italian professor of physics and mathematics called Galileo Galilei demonstrated a simple contraption to the Venetian Senate that would set in motion one of the most profound revolutions in human thought — a revolution that continues today.
Progress continues today, driven forward by scientific curiosity, by ongoing rewards, and by the promise of a profound technological revolution.
"The Cultural Revolution was so great a disaster that it provoked an even more profound cultural revolution, precisely the one that Mao intended to forestall".
That's when the graffiti in the Tehran underground began mocking Khamenei, a sure sign that, as Abbas Milani, professor of Iranian studies at Stanford University, puts it: "Inside people's heads" a profound democratic revolution has already taken place.
Such objections to his tactics detract from concentration on the substance of the PM's proposals, which mark as profound a revolution as Margaret Thatcher's decision to privatise large swaths of the economy.
