9/11: Why Planes Fly Into Banks

It has been fourteen years since nineteen young men committed group suicide... Read More…
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Drink A Toast To Abortion

Journey Well, my unnamed friend. Read More…
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Economics and Democracy: Everyone is to blame

When Democracy was created by Solon 2500 years ago in Greece, its shortcomings were readily apparent. Read More…
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Tsarnaev and the Geneva Convention

‘The Geneva Conventions extensively defined the basic rights of wartime prisoners.’ Read More…
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Why Private Pensions Failed

It is practically impossible to get a job with a pension these days, except in government.
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Pessimists and Optimists

Killing people is easy. Killing an idea is much much harder. Read More…
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Eisenhower's warning about Higher Education

Most people recall Eisenhower's Farewell Address as being about the Military-Industrial Complex, but it was also a critique of higher education. Read More…
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False Choices

The challenge is not 'How can I be better?' but 'How can we be better?' Read More…
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A Tale of Two Letters

In the aftermath of 9/11, the government went of in search of ‘Who?’ and ‘How?’ tracing every detail of the plot which eventually became the official report. I took a different tack, asking ‘Why?’ Read More…
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GDP: Grossly Distorted Picture

To understand the absurdity of the GDP, one must understand the absurdity of pricing. Read More…
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No, It's the Stupid Economists

Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a free market. What we are experiencing is a false market. Read More…
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#Hashtag #Nation

a #Shout in the #SoundsOfSilence? Read More…
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One indisputable fact of history

Regarding our ability to believe a lie and accept obvious lies as true. Read More…
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