Trump is unique among presidents since FDR. Under FDR, the portion of workers in manufacturing rose dramatically: from 30.3% to 37.0%. Since...

Four books that shaped my worldview. Robert Wright's Nonzero We can play zero-sum games in which every win comes from someone else's...

There are at least two elements to personal investing. The first is the most obvious: how to find investments that promise the most return f...

The ratio of job openings to the number of people unemployed is a simple measure of the health of the job market. This century, there have b...

Lots of talk about the Supreme Court allowing prayer in school. I actually think that it is a great idea. Seriously. William James was one o...

Last month San Francisco’s archbishop barred Nancy Pelosi from communion because she supports abortion rights. Put more clearly, a Catholic ...

A fascinating thing has happened over the last 200+ years of progress, ever since Jefferson changed John Locke's "life, liberty and...

People are (rightfully) nervous about the dollar getting hit with inflation. Over the last year, the dollar has dropped in value by 8.5% . W...

Here are a few paragraphs from my book The Fourth Economy about Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, a meeting of east and west. Marco Polo’s trips ...

What if gun deaths were not ideological? Every day more than 300 Americans are shot. 123 are killed. In 2020, 45,000 people were killed by g...

As we learn more about how clearly Trump and his supporters were intent on overthrowing democracy on 6 January 2021, it will be really fasci...

When this country began, land was the limit to progress and the simplest definition of our economic policy was to get more land. Land claime...

TL/DR Between 1980 and 2008, the number of Americans dependent on investments like 401(k)s for retirement tripled. (And I suspect it has con...

TL/DR: Freedom of religion means that in spite of my conviction that you will spend an eternity in hell for not believing what I believe, I ...

There is a dramatic difference in how the economy performs under Republican and Democratic administrations. The simplest explanation is that...

Trigger warning: This is an account of horror about the close of WWII. I've come to more often think of history as lifetimes. How far ba...

I'm intrigued by data but often the more data one gets, the harder it is to make it tell a story. It is easier to draw a line between tw...

Russia is invading a sovereign nation in the biggest land war in Europe in decades and all Trump can do is praise Putin's genius. Trump ...

The first modern Olympics game in 1896 had only 14 countries compete. In this winter Olympics we now have 91 countries competing but still j...

We live in a world of specialists. The bureau of labor statistics tracks 800+ jobs and even that is a small subset of all the jobs and occup...