It is the scale of the catastrophe that astonishes me.

So you can imagine my surprise on reading in The New Yorker that Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, claims Ayn Rand as his intellectual mentor.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a close associate of Erdogan in the AKP, pressed Turkey s application to join the European Union. So when Erdogan decided to nominate Gul as the AKP candidate for the presidency, I was surprised by the strength of the secularist opposition.

Now, in fact, by a complete fluke, I got involved many years ago in a study of this form of complexity, and to my utter amazement, I found traces very strong traces, I must say of order in that roughness.

So I am amazed to see people going along with the currently fashionable political argument that policies like cap and trade, government mandates, and subsidies for renewable energy can actually benefit an economy.