January 27, 2017

Liberalism in the Balance

What the new president has done in his first few days in office has hardly been surprising, even as it’s profoundly horrific. What has surprised me is the reaction by…

December 18, 2016

Against Greatness

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about making America “great again” – from a man who seems not to care how many people’s liberty he violates in order to pursue…

November 09, 2016

Some Thoughts on the Election

I posted this on Facebook a bit ago and thought it was worth sharing here. Last night, we ate dinner at a brewpub type place in a middle/upper-middle class Indy…

September 27, 2016

Trump Will Probably Lose. Does that Mean American Democracy Works?

Most predictions markets and election forecast models predict Trump will lose. One might be inclined to say, “Ah ha! See, democracy works!” Two problems with that: 1. HRC isn’t that…

September 16, 2016

Has “Racist” Lost Its Sting?

Tyler Cowen asks today, if Trump wins, what’s the best theory of why? He offers a number of hypotheses, including that Hillary is unpopular, as well as cistscism: 2. A quite…

August 18, 2016

What if we just replaced the current immigration system with Trump’s ideology test?

I ask that question at Marketwatch today: As a TV celebrity, Donald Trump made a career out of pretending to be more successful than he really is. Now, as…