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When the economy gets ill, people claim it’s a recession and then a depression. What they can’t do is tell you why this happens. The answer is simple: the economy is re-adjusting its own value after having been oversold. Unlike energy, value can be destroyed. If you build your economy up and claim it has [...]

In the unhappy current state of affairs, we have an election that is basically demographic warfare, an electorate that has a tenuous hold on reality, and a great chance of being eliminated when entitlements and amnesty make the population go Soviet Lite. As analyzed in other parts of this series, our civilization is in the [...]

Politics — the art of convincing others to do things — presents a rough field of play because it’s half policy and half theater. One can be a good leader, or even a great one, without being a good politician. Like other things in life, learning to be a politician is a skill that succumbs [...]

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in her choice of methods of change. Today a bizarre battleground was selected for the culture wars: fast food. The story is fairly well-known: CEO makes relatively mild statement about his company’s support for traditional marriage. Liberal lynch mob forms, foaming with hatred over the idea of dissent, and demands [...]

All great empires look the same after they die. They resemble what we might call “third world” living conditions, with a venomous oligarchy ruling behind the curtain of a governmental facade. Living conditions are disorganized, resulting in poor quality and hygiene. The behavior of citizens is random, discoordinated, self-destructive and non-cooperative. What is missing most [...]

On this blog in the past I have complained about the devaluation of American currency. Right now, they’re blaming it on the housing boom, but it seems to me the housing boom was a symptom. The cause was the Clinton era “fast money” that Robert Rubin and Bill Clinton made into policy. This drove the [...]

When the symbolic value of an act touches on a larger phenomenon than the act itself, and does so in such a way that a story is convincingly told from at least one point of view, it because a behavioral meme. Take Trayvon Martin. On the surface of it, this is an average story: a [...]

The West burns again. Like most of our modern experiments, the diversity experiment started with the ideal of equality and only later did we try to figure out how to make it work. Right now, it is failing. The future looks to be similar. Our President has said that ‘If I had a son, he’d [...]

Some people think you can go through life without tragedy and suffering. To my mind, this is a sick fantasy, since suffering and tragedy drive so many of our best moments. For example, war is terrible but it allows many men to confront their own fears, master them, and find a purpose clearer than any [...]