My family has been in America a long time. My first descendant was a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1630’s named Wyckoff. He was an indentured servant who rose to […]
A Bridge to Nowhere
The Systems Problem of Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are a systems problem; a problem that involves complex environments in which multiple inputs of varying degrees of dependency act together to produce some systemic outcome. And while we may […]
The Dog We Feed
The most eloquently stated argument against the centrally planned economies of socialism that I’ve come across is expressed by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. In The Fatal Conceit: Errors in Socialism, Hayek lays out […]
We Have No Excuse
I came down to my kitchen yesterday morning and realized that I was running short on the lion’s mane, Scandinavian made mushroom coffee that I drink. I spoke a few words into […]
Some Thoughts on the Recent Alabama Legislation
The most commonly stated cases for either side of the pro-life/pro-choice debate do nothing to counter the most commonly stated cases for their counter arguments. That an unborn child has rights worthy […]
The New Risks of Integrated Competition
The curtain on the second act of the original American drama fell at Gettysburg. Four score and seven years earlier, the audience of history had been introduced to the cast of characters […]
Lies Matter
I had a classmate at the Naval Academy who once gave a less than honest reason for missing a class on the form they made us fill out whenever we missed a […]
The Case for the Green New Deal
One of the lessons learned from the 2016 presidential election is that of the dominant power of an asymmetrical actor in a crowded field of conformists. The larger the field and the […]
The Wrong Crisis
Tuesday nights, my wife and I watch Finding Your Roots on PBS. It’s one of our favorite shows. Every week it’s the same thing. Famous people with a common theme are walked through […]
An Uncomfortable Truth
There’s a part of me that can’t help but think that we’ve all gone and gotten too sensitive. It’s not a conscious thought. It’s more primal than that. It’s something deep down […]
