Scotland is weird. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has two goals that seem at odds with one another. She has already led one -...

Every month Trump seems to find a new way to turn the volume up to 11. He's such a cluster of cruel and stupid, confident and confused, ...

I'd like you to predict which of these three people is fastest. We have a middle-aged woman, a young man and a young woman. ...

The American Civil War was fought between two economies: the South’s agricultural economy and the North’s industrial economy. Today's ...

Imagine a game show. You find yourself on stage with 3 strangers. You are told to vote on a proposal to send foreign-born, undocumen...

I'm going to argue two seemingly contradictory points. First, a point about systems optimization. You don't optimize a system by o...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. At the tender age of 29 she has become a favorite target of the...

Progress is inevitable. As someone who loves history I've come to believe that certain things are inevitable. Once the telegraph had b...

As economic power and population shifted from rural farms to industrializing cities in decades around 1900, Britain and Germany changed how ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the end of "the Great War." This war killed 15 to 20 million people but within a generation we h...

We live in a probabilistic, not deterministic world. The Democrats will probably win the House and the Republicans will probably hold the Se...

Here is the table from The Fourth Economy. One of the central arguments is that we're living through a shift from the information econom...

Looking through my mail-in ballot and sad to see that there is still no proposition to tax pop songs to fund actual poets. You think I...

There is a marketplace for ideas. It doesn't necessarily reward more effective ideas. It does seem to reward ideas that are easy to expl...

There is still a popular myth that our founding fathers fought a revolution in the late 18th century that - by the time they'd ratified ...

This New York Times story about tax schemes used by the Trumps is a story of 3 things, only 2 covered by the media. link: https://www.nyt...

If you wondered what people mean when they talk about white male privilege, you have to look no further than Kavanugh's testimony yeste...

On America’s west coast there are examples of what the popularization of entrepreneurship could look like at the regional and company-leve...

Here in mid-September, Trump just announced tariffs on $200 billion in goods from China. This is a tax on American consumers that works ...

I had jury duty the other day. Along with 40 others, I was called into a courtroom to be considered to serve on a trial. Simply put, an indi...