Politics and Economics
Scams Through the Ages - September 22, 2024
Predicting the Future - September 8, 2024
What Works - August 18, 2024
Murder, Mayhem, and the U.S. Constitution - February 25, 2024
Tribal Elders - January 14, 2024
Philosopher-Kings - January 7, 2024
Class in America - March 19, 2023
Human Agency II - February 12, 2023
Human Agency - January 29, 2023
The End of Locality - January 8, 2023
Another Doorway - January 1, 2023
On Sincerity - November 6, 2022
Global Population Growth - October 9, 2022
The Real Reactionaries - October 2, 2022
Choosing Sides - September 18, 2022
Roe v. Nothing - September 11, 2022
Substitute for Money - August 28, 2022
Political and Economic Power - August 14, 2022
No Blog Posts for a While - August 7, 2022
Philospher Kings and Other Fairytales - March 20, 2022
War Then and Now - February 27, 2022
My Country, Right and Wrong - January 23, 2022
General Will - January 16, 2022
Politics on the Front Porch - January 9, 2022
Janus, God of Doorways - January 2, 2022
Big Lies - December 12, 2021
The Thomassian Jihad (Redux) - December 5, 2021
The Lighthouse Keepers - November 28, 2021
The View from 2300 AD - October 10, 2021
An Old-Style Humanist - June 13, 2021
A Culture of Complaint - March 28, 2021
The Utilitarian Viewpoint - February 14, 2021
Once Again Contrary - January 24, 2021
Know Thy Enemy - January 17, 2021
Revised Honor Code - January 10, 2021
Apocalypse Never - December 20, 2020
The End of the Republic - December 6, 2020
On Abortion - November 22, 2020
The Unexpected Candidates - November 15, 2020
Electricity’s Dirty Secret - November 1, 2020
Are Empires Always Evil? - October 27, 2020
Clever Words - October 4, 2020
Monopoly Power - September 27, 2020
The Truth - September 20, 2020
End of Days, Or Not - September 13, 2020
Absent the Middle Class - August 30, 2020
That Civil War Meme - August 9, 2020
Beyond Socialism - August 2, 2020
Created Equal - July 26, 2020
On Respect - July 19, 2020
The Power in Losing - July 12, 2020
The Antifanatic - June 28, 2020
The Static Viewpoint - June 21, 2020
The Other - June 7, 2020
Life as a River - May 31, 2020
The Most Stable Government - May 24, 2020
The Bonfire of the Coronavirus - April 12, 2020
The Limits of Accountability - March 29, 2020
Twenty-Twenty - January 5, 2020
Market Forces - December 22, 2019
On the Basis of Sex - December 1, 2019
Good Effort - November 17, 2019
Crazy People Among Us - October 27, 2019
Three-Fifths of a Person - October 20, 2019
War No More - September 22, 2019
Good Manners vs. Political Correctness - September 8, 2019
Who Gets to Say? - August 11, 2019
The Dream of Control - July 21, 2019
A Preference for Weakness - June 16, 2019
The Downside of Gutenberg Economics - June 2, 2019
Allocating Scarcity - May 26, 2019
The Great American Tragedy - May 12, 2019
A Definition of Decadence - April 21, 2019
Personal Selfishness - March 31, 2019
Toward a Rational Monarchism - March 3, 2019
Telling Lies - February 24, 2019
No to Nukes! - February 17, 2019
Basic Civility - February 3, 2019
Working Together - January 20, 2019
From the Many, Wisdom - December 23, 2018
A Classic Liberal - December 2, 2018
The Next Civil War - November 4, 2018
Radicals and Revolution - October 28, 2018
Courage in Authority - October 14, 2018
The New Conservatism - October 7, 2018
Retroactive Prime Directive - September 30, 2018
The Mark of a Gentleman - September 23, 2018
Situational Ethics - September 16, 2018
Distrust of Government - July 1, 2018
Fake News - April 15, 2018
Freedom and Compliance - April 1, 2018
Sources of Personal Power - February 18, 2018
How We Do Things Now - February 11, 2018
War Between the Sexes - February 4, 2018
Coming Full Circle - January 28, 2018
Hooray for Humanity - January 21, 2018
Public Lives and Private Lives - January 14, 2018
The Problem With “No Problem” - November 26, 2017
When Wars Will End - November 19, 2017
A Sense of Honor - November 12, 2017
Sensitivity as Vulnerability - November 5, 2017
A Balance of Power - October 8, 2017
Two Different Worlds - September 24, 2017
Blooms in Season - August 6, 2017
Rules or Values? - July 30, 2017
Degrees of Freedom - July 23, 2017
Causes of Civil War - July 9, 2017
History a Thousand Years from Now - May 21, 2017
On Safety Measures - May 7, 2017
On Sincerity - April 30, 2017
Objective, Subjective, and Narrative - April 16, 2017
No Utopia - April 9, 2017
Death by Assimilation - March 26, 2017
Ends and Means - March 5, 2017
The Insurrection of 2017 - January 29, 2017
True Leadership - January 15, 2017
Many Hands - December 18, 2016
My Story of Oil - December 4, 2016
All Men Created Equal - November 6, 2016
A World Without Borders - September 18, 2016
Fractured Reality - August 28, 2016
Sparkly Shoes - August 7, 2016
The Core of Fanaticism - July 31, 2016
Taking Responsibility - July 17, 2016
Rules of Engagement - July 10, 2016
The Durability of Monarchy - June 12, 2016
Something Happening Here - May 8, 2016
The Curse of Subjectivity - May 1, 2016
Money and Politics - April 24, 2016
Knowing the Other - April 17, 2016
Passing the Test - April 10, 2016
The Power of Teamwork - April 3, 2016
Ghost Dichotomies - March 27, 2016
The Fairy Mirror - March 20, 2016
Middle Eastern Misogyny - March 13, 2016
The Science of Self-Determination - February 28, 2016
Folk Wisdom - February 21, 2016
Socializing the Sexes - January 17, 2016
My One Rule - January 10, 2016
Needs vs. Wants II - December 20, 2015
If I Had to Live Abroad - November 1, 2015
All, More, Less, Some, None, or Enough? – October 25, 2015
Killing Us with Our Idealism - October 18, 2015
Soi-Disant Green is People - October 11, 2015
Changing the World - October 4, 2015
Listening Between the Lines - September 20, 2015
Conceptual Tools - September 6, 2015
Civilization and Its Stressors - August 30, 2015
Markets ’R’ Us – August 16, 2015
Victimology - July 26, 2015
The Risk-Transfer Society - July 19, 2015
Getting Real About Water - June 21, 2015
Politics and Personal Honor - June 14, 2015
Rights and Their Suppression - May 24, 2015
Business Over Government - May 10, 2015
Needs vs. Wants - April 5, 2015
One-upmanship - March 15, 2015
Computers and the Totalitarian State - March 1, 2015
The Assumptions of Social Engineering - February 2, 2015
Realities of the Electric Grid - January 25, 2015
On the Virtues of Being a Contrarian - January 11, 2015
On Graffiti and Vandalism - December 21, 2014
The Art of the Possible - December 14, 2014
The Insurance Model for Health Care - December 7, 2014
Stranger Than Fiction - November 23, 2014
The Saving Grace of Democracy - November 2, 2014
We Need a Grand Challenge - September 28, 2014
The Old Roman Way - September 21, 2014
Self-Defense and the Rape Culture - July 13, 2014
The Rectification of Names - June 8, 2014
Hard Money, Soft Ideas - June 1, 2014
Defining Oneself by the Group - May 25, 2014
Fantasy as Public Policy - May 18, 2014
Public Service - April 20, 2014
Creative Tension, Creative Destruction - April 13, 2014
In Defense of Denial - March 30, 2014
The Kindness of Strangers - March 23, 2014
The ’Bots Are Coming! - March 2, 2014
The Power of Personal Honor - December 22, 2013
The Thomassian Jihad - December 8, 2013
The Labor Theory of Value - November 10, 2013
Stressors - October 27, 2013
Safety Net vs. Hammock - October 20, 2013
Why Own When You Can Rent? - October 13, 2013
The Catbird Seat - September 29, 2013
The Death of Nuclear Power - July 21, 2013
Humankind’s Next Step – June 30, 2013
The Value of Money – June 23, 2013
A Drone in the Hive – June 16, 2013
Money vs. Ideology – May 12, 2013
The Dollar Value of Technical Advances – May 5, 2013
When Strength is Weakness – April 21, 2013
Replicator Economics – April 14, 2013
Worst of Times, Best of Times – February 3, 2013
Reversing the Controls – January 20, 2013
On Being a Contrarian – January 13, 2013
Getting Serious About Gun Control – December 23, 2012
Getting Serious About Global Warming – December 16, 2012
When You Call 911 – December 2, 2012
Thoughts on Public Health Care (II) – November 25, 2012
Thoughts on Public Health Care (I) – November 18, 2012
Not With a Whimper – November 11, 2012
Mass Effects and Magical Thinking – November 4, 2012
American Culture, American Character – October 28, 2012
Never the Devil You Know – October 14, 2012
People Ain’t Stupid – September 2, 2012
The Parasite Problem – July 15, 2012
Yin and Yang – July 8, 2012
The Politics of Cuteness – July 1, 2012
Outside Looking In – June 24, 2012
Warriors vs. Soldiers – June 17, 2012
Economics of the Hive – May 6, 2012
Supply and Demand in a Digital Market – April 8, 2012
Freedom or Security? – February 19, 2012
Taxing the Wealthy – February 12, 2012
You Say You Want a Revolution – February 5, 2012
On Hating Humanity – January 29, 2012
The Coming Robotics Age – January 8, 2012
Capitalism and Civics – December 31, 2011
Formula for a Golden Age – December 24, 2011
Risk Free – December 4, 2011
What is Strength? – November 20, 2011
The Economy as an Ecology – November 14, 2011
When Corporations are People Too – November 6, 2011
Hunger for Absolutes – October 23, 2011
Aggression in a Polite Society – October 16, 2011
Where Were You When …? – September 11, 2011
War by Other Means – April 24, 2011
When a War Is Not a War – April 10, 2011
Freedom Fighters - April 3, 2011
Making the Nuclear Option Work - March 20, 2011
Automation, Work, and Personal Meaning – February 27, 2011
Athens and Rome – February 13, 2011
Madness and Method – January 16, 2011
The Politics of Balance – January 9, 2011
Personalized Medicine and the Insurance Model – December 26, 2010
We Get the Smart Ones – November 28, 2010
The Meaninglessness of Race – November 21, 2010
The Cost of Energy – November 14, 2010
Leaving Everyone a Little Bit Unhappy – November 7, 2010
Is Human Nature Perfectible? – October 31, 2010
When Socialism Works – October 10, 2010
It Isn’t a Pie – October 3, 2010
Politeness At Least – September 12, 2010
Truth is a Construct – August 29, 2010
Moon Race – August 8, 2010
