🌃 Stay beautiful, insomniacs. See you tomorrow night.
Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark! I’m your host, and boy, do I have a story for you tonight that’ll restore your faith in democracy—or at least make you feel better about your own country’s dysfunction. So 2015. Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to legalize same-sex marriage through a public referendum. Let me just sit with that for a second. Ireland. The country that gave the world Guinness, potatoes, and an unshakeable Catholic guilt tradition going back literally centuries. They looked at their constitution and said, “You know what? Let’s ask literally everyone to vote on this.” And the people said yes. Sixty-six percent! That’s not a referendum result, that’s a landslide with a standing ovation. ...