Legislatures (both national and state), courts (ditto for the Supreme Court) and the national conversation on abortion is mostly left…
Population
World Population Slows and Yet We’re Not Satisfied
This fascinating article passed my way and I guess I’m confused. Time was when we feared explosive population increases. 1955…
Zeroing In On a Guaranteed Minimum Annual Income
MLK has been dead a half-century now but, like Shakespeare, his writings never lose their power or truth. My writing…
Not Why, But Why Not Coronavirus?
I’m no longer a young man and so I often see things from more of a historic than immediate…
We Humans Have Become Just Another Failed Experiment
There are lots of failed experiments in the history of our planet, so don’t shed too large a crocodile tear.…
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Abraham Lincoln’s famous proclamation is as true of our global human presence as it is of houses. In his case…
Blame It All on China
China’s Cars, Accelerating A Global Demand for Fuel By Ariana Eunjung Cha Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, July 28, 2008;…
Lesson #297 in Why We’ll Never Feed the World
Searching For a Fourth Wife Farid would take a fourth wife if he could afford one. This 29-year-old gravel supplier…
Elite? You Got a Problem with Elite?
Immigration—everybody’s hot-button issue–and America is once again arguing across the metaphoric back-fence and having the very devil of a time…
Being Poor–and Maintaining Your Poverty–Is a Very Expensive Proposition
The typical conservative leans back on his couch, meditatively stirs his Chivas and water with a pinkie and declares (with…