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Imagine with me for a moment a steep cliff. At the base of the cliff is a campsite. Currently, there are two tents set up. One is inhabited by a...
I’ve wanted to write about the Sykes-Picot Agreement for a long time. It’s pretty much universally-derided, to the point where I thought it would be difficult to show what the...
I was counting the mentions of Donald Trump in the Dallas Morning News yesterday morning, and yes, they might have an obsession, when I noticed an article, from the Associated...
Maybe you’ve heard of the Laffer Curve. People like to make fun of it every time a conservative, post-Reagan comes into power in the U.S. The theory is simple enough....
Ready Player One was a good, not great movie. Go see it if you’ve read the book and liked it. Or sort of liked it. Go see it if you’re...
It’s been almost a year since I left graduate school. I left for a lot of reasons, but one of the big ones was my general dissatisfaction with the program....
I like books a lot. Some of them are so good, I could go on forever about them. Kind of the inverse of how some movies are so bad I...