4th Of July Finger Exercises
After an early return from my secret adventure due to a weird illness and injury[1], I will get back into the swing with some finger exercises. Automation and Jobs It’s
The UK And French Elections
The UK Vote The Year of Voting Recklessly, to borrow from Bret Stephens, continues. As of this writing, the UK still does not have a government, although it looks like
The Economics of Believing
Economics is everywhere. You just have to know where to look. Like at the cathedral I recently visited in Portugal. Many of you probably heard of “Pascal’s Wager.” This is
Adieu Trump
I was going to write a piece about how the Democrats and the media are goading Trump over the Russia issue, and how Trump is dumb and egotistical enough to
Macron and Other Offshore Topics
Emmanuel Macron has handily won the French presidential election. Now comes the hard part: trying to “govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?” (to quote Charles De
The 100 Days of Sodumb
So much has been written about the first 100 days of the Trump administration that I will try to keep my comments brief. But I already know that I will
Corruption Around The World
Some developments on the corruption front. In South Korea, we have recently seen the arrest of Lee Jae-yong, the leader of Samsung, on charges of bribery. We have also just
The Trumpcare Fiasco and Other Short Takes
I have just returned from a lengthy trip to Nevada, California (where I attended a conference organized by the libertarian Reason magazine – more below), and Hawaii. After fighting back
Trump: Over His Skis On Asset Forfeiture
Sam Harris once said, in essence, that he would rather have a randomly selected person as president, as horrifying a prospect as that may be, than Donald Trump. Harris reasoned
“The Myth of the Rational Voter” by Bryan Caplan
Careful readers will note that the book named in the title of this post, written by the libertarian economist from George Mason University, has already been mentioned twice in this