We all have opinions on the issues of income inequality and poverty in the United States. But would your opinion change if incomes in the United States were actually much more equal than you thought? And what if you learned that only 2.5% of the US … [Read more]
Free Markets, Trust, and WEIRD people
Commerce is a cure for the most destructive prejudices; for it is almost a general rule that wherever manners are gentle there is commerce; and wherever there is commerce, manners are gentle. --Montesquieu -- The Spirit of the Laws … [Read more]
A Threat to Voting Rights?
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. -- HL Mencken “Nothing less than our democracy is at stake,” says Nancy … [Read more]
The Road to Antiracism
A poor analysis of a problem will rarely result in a good solution. Ibram X. Kendi's book "How to be an Antiracist" takes on the issue of inequalities between racial groups in the US. Unfortunately, his misdiagnosis of the problem leads him to the … [Read more]
Focusing on Racism
You cannot read the history of Black people in America without being saddened and appalled and infuriated. As a middle-aged White male, I have had the luxury of never having to deal with being a minority in my own country, much less a minority … [Read more]
The American Grocery that Toppled the Soviet Union
During his 1989 visit to the United State, Boris Yeltsin, then a member of the Soviet Union's Parliament, made an unscheduled stop in a Houston grocery store called Randall's. He was stunned to find a huge array of food stacked in rows, aisle after … [Read more]
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