Exactly a year ago, the nation's first COVID death was reported. Since then, half a million Americans have died. Life expectancy in the ...

  The American revolution obviously transformed government. It less obviously transformed religion. One of the reasons Americans are still m...

William Deci made a distinction that has greatly influenced me. He argues that parents, managers and teachers have three options: control, a...

As Russell Ackoff points out, we began to treat understanding and analysis as synonymous as the West came out of the Dark Ages. To better un...

After its worst recession, the United States abolished debtors’ prison and created a more risk-taking society. James Wilson signed the Decla...

Women were reinvented after 1960 when their biological and social options changed. Edison tinkered in his lab, famously going through 3,000 ...

Democrats from Jefferson (1801 to 1809) to Buchanan (1857 to 1861) treated land as the limit and acquired a stunning amount - 2.1 million sq...

You probably know that Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world (worth $190 billion today).  Here are a couple of things you may not know....

In 1920, 31% of American teenagers were in school, triple what it had been a generation earlier. By 2020, 33% of Americans over 25 had a Bac...

In 1968, Richard Nixon won the presidential election with 43% of the popular vote. George Wallace, a southern racist and segregationist, won...

The last time the US ran a trade surplus was in October of 1975. This after nearly a century of mostly running trade surpluses. What else wa...

Today, about one-third of Americans over 25 have a Bachelors degree.* In the mid-1950s, more than a third of the men in Palo Alto did (and -...

On any given day, the transition from the industrial to information economy was negligible but like capitalism’s dynamic of compound interes...

“ … so many peaceable citizens contain lethal soldiers, so many criminals contain choirboys, so many monogamous women contain promiscuous yo...

The tweet We have to become as good at social invention and improvement as we are at product invention and improvement. We are too reliant o...

Abraham Lincoln grew up in poverty. He was born in Kentucky but his father left for Indiana (and then Illinois) because he could not compete...

I was listening to Kensy's latest podcast and his guest was talking about the tradeoff species make with brain size. Brains use a lot o...

“The Republican party is the ship and all else is the sea.” - Frederick Douglass One of the reasons for the invention of the Republican Pa...

Biden is making sweeping proposals for dealing with climate change. One element of his proposal is to make the federal government a big cons...

The oughts - the decade from 2000 to 2009 - were awful. After having created 18 to 22 million jobs per decade in the last three decades of t...