It's not enough that Trump has no interest in policy and experience in governance. Today with Tom Price's resignation we're remi...

Because Americans couldn't look away from Trump, they now can't look away from Trump. A question worth asking is What would American...

Yesterday the Census Bureau released new data on household income from 2016. There are a variety of interesting things to come out of that ...

Kim Jong-un of North Korea is not giving up his nuclear arms. The US demanded that Libya's Gaddafi and Iraq's Hussein give up or sto...

I harp on the prospect of a trade war for a host of reasons. For one thing, like the invasion of Iraq or the deregulation of financial ma...

About 90% of men had a job in 1900. (The Labor Force Participation Rate, or LFPR is the measure of this.) The workweek was 60 hours. Near...

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 ...