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March 2025

March 25, 2025

“Abundance Liberalism”

Two journalists, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, are proposing a new kind of liberalism. Their book...

February 2025

February 21, 2025

DISCUSS: Should the U.S. Government Buy TikTok?

Should the United States start a sovereign wealth fund to invest money in the private...

February 10, 2025

Shock and Awe Miscellany, 2/10/25

Do we really want Gaza? How can tariffs help our economy? Slashing the government.

February 07, 2025

DISCUSS: Trump and the Billionaires

Do we need to be concerned about the tech billionaires prominently displayed with the best...

January 2025

January 06, 2025

Epiphany Miscellany, 1/6/25

Jimmy Carter's genuine accomplishments; independence for Greenland; and indulgences for the Jubilee Year.

January 03, 2025

The Workers of the World Are Uniting

"Workers of the world, unite!" So Marx concluded "The Communist Manifesto." Today, it is happening. ...

January 02, 2025

What We’ll Have to Face in 2026

The beginning of the new year is a good time to look ahead and assess...

December 2024

December 13, 2024

DISCUSS: Health Insurance

The killer of the health insurance CEO has been turned into a folk hero on...

December 11, 2024

The End of the “American Century”?

After World War II, the United States of America dominated the world, spreading its democracy,...

December 09, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/9/24

Our national debt in light years. Google's woes. And Bible sales are up 22%.

December 02, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 12/2/24

The unintended consequences of deportation. A 40-cent bitcoin is now worth nearly $100,000. And Australia...

November 2024

November 27, 2024

Deconstructing Woke

The recent election may have marked the end of woke ideology as a political force. ...

October 2024

October 21, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 10/21/24

FBI's revised 2022 stats show violent crime was up, not down as reported; "one of...

October 15, 2024

Garbage Time

The metaphor of "garbage time"--when the game is basically over, but you have to play...

October 14, 2024

Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day Miscellany, 10/14/24

The rest of the story about the jobs numbers. What happened to the government's "internet...

September 2024

September 30, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 9/30/24

Politicians (and voters) vs. economists; communal kitchens; and how about augmented reality?

September 18, 2024

Why Tariffs Cannot Work

A few weeks ago, we criticized a key part of Kamala Harris's economic program in...

September 05, 2024

Leftwing Conservatism

To the many different kinds of conservatism today, we can add Leftwing Conservatism. This is...

September 02, 2024

Vocation Day Miscellany, 9/2/24

In this Vocation Day (a.k.a. Labor Day) Miscellany, we reflect on how one in five...

August 2024

August 22, 2024

Why Price Controls Cannot Work

Kamala Harris has announced her economic policy, which includes price controls. But regardless of ideology...

August 12, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 8/12/24

The "vibes" election. Google is an illegal monopoly. And Hindu nationalists court American conservatives.

July 2024

July 23, 2024

J. D. Vance, the New Right, & the New Christian Politics

J. D. Vance, the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, has been called "the standard bearer of...

July 19, 2024

A Parallel Economy

Some conservatives are trying to form a "parallel economy" as an alternative to that of...

July 08, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 7/8/24

The Democrats' conundrum--and a way out. The future of marriage: different spouses for sex, companionship, money,...

July 02, 2024

Cold War II–and We Are the Soviets

Niall Ferguson has been arguing that a new cold war is emerging, with the alliance...

June 2024

June 24, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 6/24/24

U.S. Navy is engaged in its most intense combat since World War II. Biden kills...

June 12, 2024

Degrowth Communism

According to Kohei Saito, capitalism creates economic growth, which puts ever-more carbon into the atmosphere. ...

June 10, 2024

Monday Miscellany, 6/10/24

Setbacks in the artificial intelligence revolution. The internet comes for Amazon tribes. And pro-life protesters...

June 06, 2024

China’s Ambitions vs. Its Demographic Collapse

China has great ambitions. It hopes to replace the United States as the world's greatest...

June 03, 2024

Monday Miscellany 6/3/24

Who is guilty of election interference, Trump or His prosecutors? NATO troops will"eventually" go to...