This letter from Seneca to Lucilius has lingered with me since I first read it. The words that most circulate in my head “In the case of many men, their [ … ]

We keep hearing how good the labor market is these days. We’ve created more than 16 million jobs since the financial crisis! Unemployment is the lowest since 2001!  Time to [ … ]

A young man of my acquaintance recently ended his intimate relationship with a girl that had lasted some years, and announced the fact to the world on Facebook, together with [ … ]

A world in which “we do these things because they’re easy” has one end-state: collapse. Our national philosophy now is “we do these things because they’re easy”– and relying on [ … ]

Much is written about slavery and its aftermaths. A large part of this is frenetically modified history issuing from people both excited and poorly read, a comic-book version apparently intended [ … ]

About three years ago I lost 50+ pounds, I’m proud of me. I also learned that I was inspirational to others in that same way others had been inspirational to [ … ]

I’m a sample size of one. I’m not trying to persuade anybody so please don’t read this on the offense looking for where to land a punch, I’m just one [ … ]

I believe it is clear that the main reason the economy has been growing slowly since the financial crisis is overly tight monetary policy. Inflation has been chronically low. The [ … ]

We’re “your” trustworthy news source, even though we’re all owned by six corporations or billionaires with political agendas. The “news” has loomed large in The News–a classic self-referential loop in [ … ]

Debt-dependent consumption in a world in which wages stagnate for the bottom 90% and energy costs increase as demand outstrips supply is a system with only one possible end-point: collapse. [ … ]