As the emails go out from the school district where I live that schools are closing, I can’t help but wonder if there is, or ever will be, a stronger case for […]
COVID-19 and The Case for State Capacity
It’s Still Their Party
Bernie Sanders doesn’t have the support of the Democratic Party. If that wasn’t clear before, yesterday’s thorough beating at the poles by Joe Biden has made it clear. Crystal. The vision of […]
Impeachment and What it Tells Us About the State of American Institutions
I stopped writing about politics a few months ago. If you take the long view of things and incorporate enough history and objective thought into that sort of work you start to […]
A Bridge to Nowhere
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 […]
Life on The Border
I can see Mexico from my backyard. It shows up as a bright band of twinkling lights on a hill to the south a few miles away. I live on the east […]
Thoughts on the Helsinki Summit
Political opinions, like most opinions, aren’t sound evaluations of puts and takes on any given societal issue. They’re personal preferences that require some form of matching to an ideal. Psychologists Amos Tversky […]
Thomas Weber’s Becoming Hitler
I finished reading historian Thomas Weber’s Becoming Hitler: the Making of a Nazi last night. I thought I’d share a few thoughts. Weber is a German historian, Hitler scholar and professor at […]
Why Our Best Don’t Run for Office
I served with now former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. In 2004 we were both assigned to be Officers in Charge of Naval Special Warfare small boat detachments in the same squadron. It […]
The Death of Nuance
I wrote a bit about George Mason economist Robin Hanson last week and the blog post that he wrote in April that’s created quite a stir. In response to the media flap […]
Algorithmic Intolerance
The stack of books on my nightstand expands and collapses with the ebb and flow of my free time. It’s a good indicator of how much I have going on in my […]