What Happened to Bitcoin?
Those who involved themselves in Bitcoin markets after 2017 encountered a different operation and ideal than those who came before.…
Now We Are Supposed to Cheer Government Surveillance?
They are wearing us down with shocking headlines and opinions. They come daily these days, with increasingly implausible claims that…
A Coup Without Firing a Shot
The last few years can be tracked at two levels: the physical reality around us and the realm of the…
Is the Overton Window Real, Imagined, or Constructed?
The concept of the Overton window caught on in professional culture, particularly those seeking to nudge public opinion, because it…
Did Lockdowns Set a Global Revolt in Motion?
My first article on the coming backlash – admittedly wildly optimistic – went to print April 24, 2020. After 6 weeks of…
Is Inflation Harmless?
The New York Times has published a strange article by Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. The…
The CDC Intervened in Voting Protocols
In the spring of 2020, a deliberately cultivated disease fear swept across the population. Everyone was urged to do everything…
Four Years Later
Has the dust settled? Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in…
The White House Makes Good on Its Antitrust Threats
On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors…
How Did American Capitalism Mutate Into American Corporatism?
In the 1990s and for years into our century, it was common to ridicule the government for being technologically backwards.…
Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
“Beware the Ides of March,” Shakespeare quotes the soothsayer’s warning Julius Caesar about what turned out to be an impending…
In Health Care, We Are Flying Blind
In the movie Paddington, a bear moves in with a London family. The father of the house is an insurance…
The End of the End of Ideology
In 1960, Harvard sociologist Daniel Bell published a book called The End of Ideology. It argued that it was time…