Learned something curious from Berkowitz's Sex and Punishment , a book I picked up from the Harvard Bookstore a week ago. Medieval pries...

Stephen Covey's 4th habit is the building block to relationships. It also gives us a way to better understand the danger of Trump. Thi...

Robert Wright's Nonzero forms one of the foundations to my worldview. The other day he interviewed Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy ...

One of the things that neo-nationalism might signal is a hunger for common culture. We all listen to different music, read and watch differe...

From about 1830 to about 1900, the Democratic party was all madness and defense of the agricultural economy and the Republicans were the pro...

Nerd that I am, I collected some data on the 15 congressional districts where Trump won the largest percentage of votes and the 15 districts...

When it comes to how we're wired, liberals prioritize equality and care while conservatives focus more on loyalty, authority and purity....

In 1642, Galileo died and Newton was born. That's still a poignant symbol of the hand off from Italy to Britain for progress. In 1500,...

It's not just that we're getting more specialized in our work. We're also getting more specialized in our consumption. My lunch ...

This morning the new GDP numbers were announced here . The numbers compare the second quarter of 2019 with the second quarter of 2018. GD...

When it comes to politics, there are a lot of people who believe that the truth lies somewhere in the middle and that if only we listened to...

Harper's Weekly Review always serves as a stark reminder of how many truly weird things happen in any given week. This week's accoun...

Someone literally responded to my making fun of Trump with, "Well Ilhan Omar wants Sharia Law here." And I thought, "Y...

Moliere had a character in a play who was terribly surprised to learn that he'd been speaking prose all his life. Today Trump told democ...

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Less talked about is how narrow was his electoral college victory. To put that in perspective, he's...

The women's soccer team is fighting for equal pay. A conservative friend thinks this is silly. It's a curious thing. This friend i...

Excerpt from P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's LikeWar: the weaponization of social media. Michael Flynn's personal Twitter a...

Here's one possible route to beating Mitch McConnell. I think it may work politically but in any case it presents the truth about Kentuc...

It seems a requirement of modern politics that Democrats criticize big business and Republicans criticize big government. There is one...

File under: things that mostly just fascinate me but really do affect everyone: "$20 trillion of the $55 trillion in global sovereign ...