Shake off the ick before 2026! Happy new year!

Changes from the start to finish of 2025. (I know. This information would have been so much more valuable 365 days ago.)

Socialists and capitalists largely agreed that society and the economy are inseparable. Where they differed was in what to change first. So...

I didn’t say she was emotional. I simply said she got choked up each morning reading her horoscope, imagining all the wonderful, if vague, ...

A frontier we rarely capture is the value hidden in the interactions between fields. We train specialists to go deep, but many discoveries ...

I'm beginning to suspect that fortune cookies reveal little about the future ... but by now they've got me hooked on the Chinese fo...

The 16th Amendment (1913) gave the federal government the capacity to raise modern revenues through an income tax; the 19th Amendment (1920...

Thorstein Veblen famously defined conspicuous consumption as people buying, wearing, driving, and enjoying certain products and services les...

If you watch sports, you don’t know what genre you’re getting. It might be a feel-good story—your team dominating, the hero delivering, ever...

Time for Cat Stevens to release an update to his classic "Oh Very Young." Titled, "Oh Very Old," it'll be a meditati...

Don't forget the Mary in Merry Christmas! Everything starts with mothers. Call your mom and thank her for this - and all your other - d...

Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery. They were prominent critics of mask and vaccine mandates and str...

Start an argument at Christmas dinner. Tell everyone you shorted Trump Media & Tech stock using the Canadian $ so that you profited twic...

Culture is something we share because we live in community. It also depends on our willingness to gloss over differences that might otherwis...

  This is an economic number that drives most every other. source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1 #

Culture is partly about categorization. Sometimes in broad strokes, sometimes in fine ones. We fit in—or stand out—through our clothes, our ...

“This box is empty. Empty. This—this is what you got me? What is this supposed to be, Jerome? What’s supposed to be under all this wrapping ...

He claimed he could read dogs' minds. We asked him to prove it. After calmly holding his hands over the dog's head for about 4 minut...

University of Michigan consumer sentiment index at its lowest in more than 6 decades. Hey UM. You think that's remarkable, ask me about ...

Matthew 2: 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children...