Trump this week: "Bring me tariffs! I want tariffs!" Me: Somebody has got to stop that kid. He's driving so recklessly that ...

I've gone to a few political rallies and inevitably find them dismaying. There are a variety of reasons for this but a couple of obvious...

We fought the British. We fought the Mexicans. We fought the Japanese. We fought the Vietnamese. When those battles were over there were sti...

Trump's (presumably partial) to do list for August 1. Take 17 day vacation on Trump property golf course 2. Criticize McConnell for n...

Once upon a time people had a fairly simple test for the power of a God. They simply wanted to know, did he help you to win battles? Constan...

In Peter Frankopan's new book, The Silk Roads , he offers one explanation for the spread of Islam that I'd never heard before: it wa...

We are creatures of desire. Desires make us happy but can also hijack us. We can find shortcuts to satisfying desire that lead to addictio...

For context, US median household income for 2015 (the year reported on above) was $55,775. Data sources: Population of cities her...

Sam Harris recently had a conversation with Scott Adams (Dilbert creator and author of How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big ) about ...

Two quick things about taxes. Studies suggest that if you try to increase government revenue by raising tax rates, the rich leave. The...

Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City [2011], opens with some statistics that illustrate the remarkable contrast between big city product...

Trump's candidacy and administration has been bizarre. If you were to make up any of the following for a novel or screenplay about polit...

INSTITUTIONS AS TOOLS OR SACRED OBJECTS The battle between social conservatives and progressives In last week’s speech in Poland, T...

The first two amendments to the constitution regard freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. All you may need to know about the modern ...

Donald Trump has shown no interest in healthcare policy in the midst of the most important debate on the topic in a decade but he has obsess...

The GOP has taken over the federal government and could keep it through 2032. In 2010, the GOP targeted and won key elections in order to ...

I believe in a minimum wage. Companies adapt to regulation in the same way that they adapt to market competition. If a community insists tha...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. - Walt Whitman Everyone is a multitude. ...

Mary Meeker delivered her annual Internet report Sunday . One of the points she made was about gaming. Entrepreneurs are often fans of ga...

Thursday, the House GOP passed a bill to repeal Dodd-Frank. Friday, the NASDAQ fell nearly 2%. Meanwhile, the world fixated on a UK election...