photo credit: Bigstock There is no better or more salutary way of reminding yourself of your own profound and irreparable ignorance than to browse in a well-stocked secondhand bookshop. It [ … ]

We want this time to be different so badly, we can almost taste it. If you visit San Francisco, you will find it difficult to walk more than a few [ … ]

Whatever a progressive ‘is’, its adherents have been protesting loudly, and Facebook  ‘liking’ eagerly, on the need for gender-neutral pronouns to accommodate transgender and gender-fluid preferences. For them, gender must [ … ]

“Apple did something far smarter than wrap a good technology in a snazzy design; it wrapped a good technology in a great business model.” Johnson, Mark W. (2010-02-22). Seizing the [ … ]

Nothing is as permanent as we imagine–especially super-complex, super-costly, super-asymmetric and super-debt-dependent state/financial systems. Identifying the tell-tale signs of Imperial decay and decline is a bit of a parlor game. The [ … ]

Mother Jones recently announced it’s “redoubling our Russia reporting”—in What passes for “Russia reporting” at Mother Jones is mostly just glorified InfoWars paranoia for progressive marks — a cataract of [ … ]

One of the core problems of financial reform is how to “resolve,” AKA bankrupt, a big bank — how can equity holders be wiped out, and debt holders carve up [ … ]

What if my car is trying to kill me? And what if the artificial intelligence police robots are in on it? I am the sole passenger in a car being driven autonomously and [ … ]

Ariana Grande, of whom I had not heard until Salman Abedi killed 22 people at her “concert” in Manchester, has had herself tattooed with a picture of a bee, a [ … ]

The entire status quo is based on the delusion that rapidly rising debt will never generate any negative consequences. Here’s a chart of America’s national debt, extended a mere dozen [ … ]