In 1987 Thomas Sowell wrote A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. In this book, he said, “Visions rest ultimately on some [...]
Know What’s So Yesterday Joe Biden apparently found out how much he was hurting his political party because what he knew for sure “just wasn’t so” as [...]
Last week we discussed in this space the immense number of things that people “know” that aren’t so. When this author was young, the world was threatened [...]
A popular saying assures us that “it ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” The [...]
A few weeks ago we discussed in this space the value of excellent productive work. No nation can enjoy a high standard of living on a widespread basis without [...]
“In the long run we’re all dead,” Keynes informed us. He did so in order to stress economic theory’s inability to determine the distant future. [...]
Work: The Backbone of Nations Americans have lived in an environment of excellence and plenty for so long that many of us have no concept of what it’s like [...]
Austrian economists have been conclusively demonstrating for many decades that economics is not about complex equations, government control, and meticulous [...]
Winston Churchill called the Soviet Union “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” He was being kind. He could have called it brutality wrapped in [...]
This Memorial Day, as we reflect on ordinary Americans who did extraordinary things at ultimate cost, it’s also worth reflecting on their character. [...]
Though gold has been one of the most valuable substances known to man for millennia, its exclusion from the financial system for decades has relegated it to [...]
What can people do when they work together? Quite a lot, it would seem. Anyone who has worked on an effective team has likely been amazed at both the dynamics [...]
