June 3, 2012

Support for free market medicine from an unlikely source

An interesting article in this week's New England Journal of Medicine discusses the impact of the Affordable Care Act on illegal immigrants.

January 22, 2012

The Golden Rule of Economics: People Want Stuff

Many people equate wealth with money, but this is often a mistake. So let's talk about wealth, rather than money.

October 27, 2009

Lies, damn lies, and opinion polls

And your tax dollars pay for it.

October 4, 2009

The New Scientist?

It's OK to lie?

May 6, 2008

Gaia Declares Hudna

What lies behind the failure of the globe to warm as predicted by settled science?

April 27, 2008

False Consciousness and the Rich

Ah, things were so much simpler in the old days, when rich guys would carry moneybags between their homes on Fifth Avenue and the ones in Newport.

April 26, 2008

A Scorecard For The 21st Century

One table sums up the players and their likely roles.

August 4, 2007

Art Or Propaganda? Postwar American Photography

Not since Socialist/Heroic Realism in the 1930's has a mode of art been so rigidly constrained to a political orthodoxy, as photography has been for the last 40 years.