Non-fiction, essays on life around me as I’m coming to understand it.
If life were so simple. In the quest to know more you need to rely on what you do know while validating this prior knowledge… Read More »Which is more important in life, what you know or what you don’t know?
In the United States, the term adjusted gross income has the smell of US Federal Tax Form 1040, and accordingly, yes; which is both a… Read More »Is Social Security included in adjusted gross income?
What if all these things yet undone are gifts from the Father, to be unwrapped each in turn, enjoyed, to be delighted in, to grateful… Read More »What if all these things yet undone are gifts
How do I mark myself SAFE? Day Two, hands wringless. I know, I know, many folks’s hands are chafed from all wringing…as if man’s humanity… Read More »How do I mark myself SAFE?
The problem with state planners, whether communist or fascist, is arrogance. A statist views its particular plan as self-evidently true and just, as natural as… Read More »The Problem with State Planners
In this audio book, Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Source: The Case… Read More »The Case Against the Fed | Mises Institute
Yes, we could build a wall as Trump has proposed. Let’s st aside the important matter of whether that is a good idea in terms… Read More »An Engineer Explains Why Trump’s Wall Is So Implausible – and Bastiat
I. THE BROKEN WINDOWHave you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a square of… Read More »That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen; by Frederic Bastiat
This post began as a comment to an article posted on Linkedin. So when drug executives sit down to think about setting prices, they believe… Read More »How to Fix Drug Prices | Gurdane Bhutani | LinkedIn
My favorite fictional cripple – oops, lame man – is Rainer Marie Rilke’s Ewald – because he is so full of wonder and joy and… Read More »Krauthammer on Obama’s Core Deception