Reducing Hate by Restoring Tolerance

Though I cannot demonstrate it statistically, I believe the US is inching toward coercive, state-directed thought control. On such "€œcontroversial"€ topics as immigration ...

Occam’s Butter Knife

MIT's Daron Acemoglu is a rock star among economists, one of the ten most cited in his profession. This is largely because of the paper the Istanbul-born Armenian cowrote in 2001: ...

Human Rights: The Useless Fiction

I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to their feet three years ago by announcing that "€œOwning a gun is a human right."€ I mumbled ...

Empty Promise, Barack Obama and the Death of the American Dream

Once upon a time, there was the American Dream, "€œthat dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone,"€ as James Truslow Adams described ...


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