These P/E ratios as of market close 28 August, 2026.   It seems to me that Tesla is wildly over-priced and Nvidia is underpriced (not wildly...

Hannah Arendt made a distinction between power and violence , which she insisted were opposites rather than degrees of the same thing. Power...

The plot twist no one saw coming. Yes it was true that AI turned out to be a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity. But once AI thought ...

"Remember. We’re not just producing shows. All the other institutions have collapsed. It is up to us to show the way. It is up to TV to...

Hmmm ... If Nvidia had Tesla's trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of roughly 384x instead of its own 33x, its stock price would r...

August 15, 1945 is when Japan officially surrendered. WWII finally over, American soldiers began coming home. In 1946, the baby boom began. ...

US economic ratio: 7,000 new bankruptcies for every 1 new billionaire. Real economic progress should attack both sides of this equation: low...

Over the last few years, every HOUR the U.S. economy has created roughly: 50 new millionaires 5 new decamillionaires (households with a net ...

Sarah Bakewell, on Sartre reading Husserl, in At the Existentialist Café : "All consciousness is consciousness of something." Sart...

People love their pets. Also, given pets are animals, they are less protected by FDA norms for regulating new drugs. The result? Dogs are mo...

The stock market boom is financing early retirement. According to recent data from Bank of America, the labor force participation rate for A...

Trump is racist and xenophobic. Why is that an intoxicating blend for so many Americans? He was born a white American and that not only make...

Lenin - and others - had famously said that you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. Many have since mocked the phrase, look...

Decision fatigue in the modern world may be one reason people find strongmen appealing. Here, finally, is someone who will simply decide for...

If you still like Donald, you might be the odd duck.

The five most valuable publicly traded companies vary quite a bit in the measure of profit per employee. Profit Per Employee  NVIDIA: ~$2.02...

To be fair, Tom's conspiracy theory was not typical. It was, in fact, a conspiracy theory about conspiracy theories. Amelia hardly knew...

From Marci Shore, Professor of History at Yale. "The child soon learns to exchange pleasure for social respectability" - Freud For...

After spending years writing and failing to sell screenplays, he finally found his muse. He began generating conspiracy theories. They were ...

Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

"One definition of modernity is the notion of a shift from a cyclical notion of time, a kind of circular notion of time that was focuse...

It turns out American religion works rather like business: over the last fifty years, the churches that grew fastest were the ones that resp...