The past 40 years have been good. Progressively lower inflation, friendly stock markets with insatiable appetites, productivity gains, technology and a few trillion dollars between friends has done wonders. All [ … ]

This is an interesting election. It is historic but it also is not. Rogue oligarchs show up from time to time. Strongman have been called up to rule over a [ … ]

Every sports event has people who are convinced, and occasionally convincing, that they predicted the outcome. I am time stamping my predictions for UFC 205, I’m not gonna give a [ … ]

Human history is the story of war. There is always a foe. War takes different forms and its battles are military but also trade, industry, innovation, immigration, commerce, currency and [ … ]

History is being lost. It is being reconfigured to satisfy modern tastes and to shame and condemn what came before. Soon all that will remain are memes. By reading the [ … ]

  Disclaimers, trigger alerts and microaggression: I was born and raised in NYC. I am 50 years old. My bio is here I am a (liberal?) Democrat. I have given, hosted,bundled, been [ … ]

I watched (almost) the entire Republican Convention and I have watched almost the entire Democratic Convention. There is still one day left, tonight Hillary will speak. I know many of [ … ]

Dear Ethicist, My wife and I were on a subway car, a panhandler presented herself as blind and crippled. We gave her a dollar. A few minutes later we were [ … ]

I am Meredith McIver. So are you. “We are all Meredith McIver” – Meredith McIver It is self-evident that there is no ‘real’ person who ‘is’ Meredith McIver. That literary [ … ]

Our political system has transformed. The change is mostly complete and I don’t think cosmetic changes, whichever ornament tops the tree, matters much beyond stylistic preferences. The Judiciary, Legislative, Executive [ … ]