Much has been made of the Bush doctrine, his decision to treat any country that harbors terrorists as the equivalent of terrorists. Less has...

Imagine a person told about a tragedy - 100 killed in plane wreck or 1,000 killed in an earthquake. The person yawns and say, "That...

One of the major obstacles to change is that the individual's success is at least as much defined by social construct as direct success ...

Periodically, periodicals publish their declaration that this is a new information age. That could be, but I'd propose instead that we l...

Bush apparently still has enough supporters that people aren't particularly outraged by his decision to indefinitely imprison even Ameri...

In order to pass legislation, Congress should be required to attach a testable hypothesis. Money to be spent on drug education? Perhaps that...

One of the key innovations of the Reformation came when revolutionaries like John Wycliffe, Jan Hus, and Martin Luther drove a wedge between...

7 June 2001, Bush signed legislation that cut taxes by $1.35 trillion. Fifteen months later, NASDAQ had lost $1.25 trillion in value. Is thi...

The traditional definition of economic goods is a definition of stuff - cars, loaves of bread, clothes, and gadgets for which people will pa...

Paul writes in Colossians that covetousness is idolatry. The Old Testament is particularly critical of idol worship, dismissing it as at bes...

Knowledge workers are pragmatists. They are problem-solvers less interested in ideology or general laws than the solution to a specific prob...

“Life, liberty, and property,” the philosopher John Stuart Mills wrote. About 100 years later, Thomas Jefferson changed his phrase to, “Life...

This is obviously a fictional exchange but everything inside of “quotation marks” is an actual quote. George, Dick, and Donald are in the Ov...

I think that a lot of what we hear on talk radio is proof of demand for certain opinions more than its proof of the accuracy of those opinio...

Politics needs a four quadrant grid, to assess proposed government programs. The veritical axis would go from "Really expensive "t...

Apparently, three things make the difference. One, people of any age can vote for American Idol. Two, people can vote multiple times and it ...

“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity; I would give my right arm for the simplicity on the far side of comple...

Never has a generation been less likely to die a violent death and never has the media put so much time, attention, and energy into frighten...

There has been quite a lot of speculation about why house prices have risen so much in the last decade. I think that perhaps the most overlo...

Democracy doesn't just emerge once a tyrant has been overthrown. Rather, the history of the West suggests that it requires particular pr...