I'm seeing a fair bit about how the recovery isn't real or isn't really done because people are still poor. That's nonsense....

I have this thing about institutions. When they use people, they're oppressive. When people use them, they're enabling.  Free people...

This week Bob Woodward's new book Fear and an anonymous New York Times op-ed from a Trump administration official describes a presiden...

Richard DeVos died today . In 1959 he co-founded Amway with his friend Jay Van Andel. Like Shaklee - founded just three years earlier - Amwa...

As I write this there is a bit of a furor over the fact that Steve Bannon was invited to an ideas festival hosted by the New Yorker and then...

One sign that the Catholic Church is losing its monopoly over the opinions of the Irish is the vote there in May to end the ban on abortion....

There were things I did not like about John McCain's politics. McCain and his buddy Lindsay Graham seemed intent on sending troops into ...

The world's fastest man in the 100 meter race is black. Has been for some time. It seems tough to deny that there are differences in pop...

It's more interesting to write about how to make future progress than how to protect past progress but we don't always have that ch...

19 July, Trump tweeted out a video of Hillary Clinton saying this: "We want very much to have a strong Russia because we think that a s...

Since Oct-2010, the US economy has destroyed 475.6 million jobs (layoffs, retirements, firings, quits) and created 494.2 million jobs for n...

First an excerpt from Thinking Big, a book about how our brains evolved to adapt to social realities. A key point here is this matter of thi...

I remember feeling so utterly baffled as to why so many of my fellow Americans were eager to invade Iraq. The reasons we were given were so ...

In this week's decision to support the president's immigration ban on 7 countries, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled that the Supreme...

Cryptocurrency emerges from the notion that it is better to trust an algorithm than the judgement of a central banker.  So before we ev...

Today is Donald Trump's birthday. He's 72. Trump, George W. and Bill Clinton were all born within 66 days of each other in the ...

I think Christians, Buddhists, evolutionary biologists, statisticians, and developmental economists are right. There is no way to make sense...

Trump signed a budget that will increase the deficit to a trillion dollars. The deficit will grow simply because the economy is grow...