I'm suddenly far more optimistic about the new year now that we're back down to just one pope. Benedict was the first pope to retire...

2022 was a year of huge stories. Huge. In technical advances, MRNA therapy got its first positive results with a cancer vaccine, we sustaine...

"Virginia State Delegate Marie March (R) has pre-filed House Bill 1395, a law that would define life as beginning at fertilization....

The pandemic may have accelerated a change in how we think about work and pay. When the US was founded, a vast majority of work fell into on...

Trump announced his run for president today. We will soon see whether Republicans have become less gullible and Democrats less timid. If the...

Increased life expectancy and lower birthrates have slowed political change. Ronald Inglehart (who died just last year) compiled an enormous...

As far as I know, not a single one of my Republican friends has denounced Donald. That puzzles me. Like a toddler on his third line of coke,...

An intruder broke into Nancy Pelosi's home yesterday to attack her. Her husband was violently assaulted and has had surgery to repair a ...

The biggest difference in worldviews seems to be the difference between zero-sum and variable-sum. If your worldview is zero-sum, you believ...

Elon Musk is moving ahead on his purchase of Twitter. I have 2 problems with that. 1. This means he'll be playing CEO for 5 companies. H...

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...