If you mistake Regress for Progress, how long can you hope to escape the consequences of having done so? I was told yesterday, and I hear it often, that things can’t be as bad as I say, because they could be so much worse than they are… which sounds …
American war dead, Flanders Field, BelgiumRemembering, once again… Memorial Day… it is enough to remember today those who have fallen in defense of our nation. But it’s not all we can do, for them or for us, and to leave it there, I think, dep…
If you want to put America first, you’ve first got to figure out what in the hell it is that you think America is, and what it resulted from, and what it requires in order to continue to exist. If you don’t want to bother with doing that, then you are …
In the last two posts (here and then here), we’ve gone over how the apparent differences of Left, Right, Libertarian, Populists, who are economically severed from any principled contact with reality, producing only an indistinguishable growth of g…
The previous post went into how the unifying nature of the Administrative State’s partisan divides, takes in the bitterly divided positions of the Left, Right, Libertarian, Populists, and their desire to ‘do something!’ for or against ‘Capitalism’, and…
Here’s something you don’t hear every day: An Economy is not the result of Economic Thinking, and Economic Thinking is not the first, but the last stage in a long train of philosophic thinking (about what is, how you know it, what you should do about i…
In yesterday’s post I pointed out how considering ‘The Ship of Theseus’ paradox, reveals how easily surface changes can falsely appear to be significant, while a too shallow consideration of seemingly small changes, can fundamentally alter, and even co…
Isn’t “That just isn’t true!”, one of the more common reactions we have towards nearly everything we’re faced with today? If it were just lying liars lying, it wouldn’t be quite so bad, but as terms which were once understood to have unchangeably fixed…