Within the first few pages of the second to last chapter of the important book Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and Northeastern University’s Jeff […]
The Hard Problem
The Tragedy of Politics
There’s an inherent human need to look to the past and connect it with what we’re seeing around us. We seek to anchor the new that we see to something more comfortable. […]
The Marital Bliss of Green Politics
Nothing so much reminds me of the bickering of a dysfunctional married couple than environmental politics. He does something wrong. She points it out. He refuses to acknowledge it. Over time the […]
The Extreme Analogue
The world is full of extreme analogues, those things that are like us, but more extreme. If you’re smart, you can figure out how to use them. We use them all the […]
The Things You Learn About Terrorism, Fighting Terrorism.
I never lost much sleep over what happened to the people we hunted that were doing the types of things that made us hunt them. Chances are, if we came knocking at […]
Fifty
The average age of an American serviceman killed in Vietnam was 23 years old. In Iraq, it was 27. The average American lives to be about 80. The data for other conflicts […]
An Open Apology to the Confederacy
I’d like to take a moment to apologize for something I did a few days ago. It was a foolish thing. I was rash. And I did something wrong. I went ahead […]
The Consequences of Democracy
“This is political Jihad perpetrated by the Democrats.” James Woods of 80’s movie character actor fame and more recent but less entertaining conservative tweet fame tweeted. He’s right. Though, I’ve been through […]
The Doomed American Healthcare Debate
It’s about as clean a political debate as you’re going to find. When you break it down as simply as you can, the healthcare fight is drawn up so tightly that it […]
So Much Winning: The Power of Intellectual Curiosity
In the late summer and early fall of 1771 Benjamin Franklin, on travel in Ireland and Scotland, met with James Watt and Adam Smith. The same James Watt that developed the steam […]