In 2024, the economy created more than 2 million jobs. In all of 2025 it created fewer jobs than were created in just the fourth quarter of ...

If you were conscripted for 12–18 months into public-sector entrepreneurship to help to create, improve, or eliminate our public sector inst...

"Although the context in which we live today is different from that of the fifth century, some similarities remain highly relevant. We ...

2025 was the slowest rate of job creation (outside of COVID) since the Great Recession.

Michael Reagan had a sad childhood. His adopted parents were Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. Even though he was Ronald Reagan's son, he li...

 At a certain point in history, people begin to wear clothing not just for protection from the elements but as a cultural norm. At this poin...

We went, in the space of a few generations, from one local newspaper and a handful of radio stations to three national television networks; ...

Trump now appears intent on unraveling the U.S. commitment to NATO—reportedly over his desire to seize Greenland by force. If you still beli...

Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of Trump's attempt to violently overthrow democracy. We need a constitutional amendment that simply sugg...

Penguins are supposedly monogamous but given they all look alike, no one - including the penguins - is actually sure of this.

The past feels simpler because we encounter it through maps, not terrain. History is what chaos looks like after it’s been cleaned up—after ...

 "Having norms that increase cooperation can favor success in competition with other groups that lack these norms." Henrich, Josep...

Reading Joseph Henrich's brilliant The Secret of Our Success - a book about culture and its importance in shaping societies and individ...

Do you know why Warren Buffet is a billionaire? He didn't retire until he was 95. [File under, "life lessons kids don't want to...

Shake off the ick before 2026! Happy new year!

Changes from the start to finish of 2025. (I know. This information would have been so much more valuable 365 days ago.)

Socialists and capitalists largely agreed that society and the economy are inseparable. Where they differed was in what to change first. So...