Yesterday as I wandered through the British Museum, marveling at the scale of the creations from civilizations past, I was struck by a coupl...

"T here is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families." - Margaret Thatcher, former Bri...

People don't ride the subway to watch the scenery. They are trying to get somewhere. We'd find it odd if someone got onto the subway...

Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart , highlights a dramatic and important divergence between America’s elites and working class during ...

Anyone who reads my blog with any regularity knows that I think social invention is as important as technological invention. It's true t...

I walked the Vegas Strip this last weekend watching people. I was coming up behind a small group of females on the sidewalk and just about t...

It might be time to revisit the original impetus for the computer and make that - like the computer - personal. William Shockley headed th...

Silicon Valley's first tech boom produced the Internet, the worldwide web that connects the globe. So what if Silicon Valley's ne...

One of the biggest problems with the educational system is perhaps the most invisible and it stems from a view of the world that fractures t...

It's time to create a new kind of university, one that invests some portion of the money students now spend on tuition into their own st...

The size of the match is no predictor of the size of the fire it will start. In his book The Coming Jobs War , Jim Clifton tells a story a...

For more than a decade we've been cutting taxes and while it is not clear that it has done much to create jobs, it has clearly helped to...

This winter, thousands of new records were set for heat and temps in the US were up 6 degrees. 6. That's a lot. Our national debt is g...

Last month the American economy created 120,000 jobs. Here's one way to compare 120,000 jobs gained vs. 258,000 jobs gained (the avera...

Yesterday watching the baseball game, I was trying to predict what each batter would do. My son was as well, but his predictions were far mo...

Last week I interviewed candidates vying for positions ranging from city council to the US House of Representatives. Candidates of every...

So far, so good. In early January, I predicted a bull market for stocks this year. From the Union Tribune The bulls weren’t bullish eno...

I've started Charles Murray's book, Coming Apart. More to say when I'm done but just this first impression reading about how vas...

The budget is a beautiful thing. It forces a people to translate their warm and fuzzy feelings about politics into concrete priorities and n...