The article claims to be for a broad audience, and contains insinuations of political relevance. But right-half-plane zeros are a purely technical concept, and

The article claims to be for a broad audience, and contains insinuations of political relevance. But right-half-plane zeros are a purely technical concept, and they're not explained with enough technical detail to be air-dropped into the middle of a broad audience piece. It's almost good. It would be good if it dropped the pretensions to technicality.