Magnitude Matters

Or perhaps I should say in one equation properly explained . . . Political thinking:       ALL THE STUFF divided by ALL THE WORKERS equals ...

We stand at the precipice of a great opportunity . The government of China is doing what governments do by going state on Hong Kong . The le...

Here is the low-hanging fruit of public policy. 90% solutions (improvements) on these issues are several orders of magnitude more important ...

About a year ago, I posted on Trump looking at what I saw as the reasons to be optimistic and pessimistic. Let's revisit that now that ...

If I had my druthers, I would choose retired couples who are infatuated with my children. The advantages are numerous including: They...

Partial list of nations and empires with famous walls: China: The Great Wall Germany: Berlin Wall Israel: Israeli West Bank barrier Rom...

Let's begin with a few on immigration (I've been saving these; hence, the late dates on some): Alex Tabarrok made the case for co...

Doin' the wave . (don't miss the video at the bottom) Michael Pollan drops in to see what condition LSD's condition is in. [H...

For roughly 70 years since end of World War II, we've been trying to bring America to "them". Isn't it time we gave bringi...

Kojak. Bang! Bang! Virginia Postrel gives us four questions courtesy of FIRE to ask prospective universities regarding their attitudes o...

I want to go to there . And while we're at it, here too. So let's talk about misled people doing selfish things . But perhaps it ...