Articles by Topic
I hope you will have a look at the earlier entries as well as the latest.
Government, Markets, and You
America’s Second Civil War
America is engaged in its second civil war. Like the first, the war is over an idea. Under sustained attack is the idea of America as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Founding Fathers set the preservation of individual freedom as...
How America Can Come Back from Chaos
The chaos and ruin in America today is exceptional: our open border, the intellectual and moral corruption of the mainstream media, wokeness over readiness in the military, an educational system that indoctrinates but does not educate, decriminalization, resurgent...
Letter to My Children on How to Invest Their Money
I have approached the challenge of advising you on how to invest your money with trepidation. Having invested other people’s money and my own for decades, I know that the world is a lot more complex and subtle than even the smartest guys in the room can comprehend....
Climate Change
Solving the Climate Puzzle the Sun’s Surprising Role
This article is a bit long but very much worth reading. It presents key points from a superb distillation of what the climate science literature says. The author, Javier Vinos, a Ph.D. scientist, spent nine years studying the scientific literature on climate...
Richard Lindzen’s conversation with Jordan Peterson
Richard Lindzen, a retired atmospheric physicist. Per Wikipedia, “He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers. From 1972 to 1982, he served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Dynamic Meteorology at Harvard University. In 1983, he was appointed as the Alfred P....
William Happer’s presentation on the effect of CO2 on temperature
Notes and Commentary on William Happer’s Presentation to Australia’s Institute of Public Affairs on the Effects of CO2 on temperature September, 2023 The core narrative of the climate emergency crowd is that a higher concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will cause a...
Green Energy
Is Green Energy Economically Viable?
Acknowledgement: The following relies heavily on work by Leigh Goehring and Adam Rozencwajg, “The Distortions of Cheap Energy” Fourth Quarter 2021 February 23, 2022 It seems axiomatic among right thinking people that green energy must be fervently supported. Green...
Renewable Energy is Hazardous to the Environment and Your Health
Besides being irredeemably uneconomic [See “Is Green Energy Economically viable?” November, 2023], wind and solar power generation is harmful to the environment and your health. The hazard comes mainly but not entirely from the disposal of wind turbine blades and...
Science and Religion
Evidence and Belief
What the Evidence Says about What’s True Ever since I was old enough to think about the world, I have wanted to understand what is true. I have never been a post-modernist, one of those people who think that reality is nothing but a social construct, devised and...
Why I am a Universalist
I think all who call themselves Christians would assent to certain foundational beliefs: There is a single consciousness – spirit or logos – that has created from nothing all reality: spacetime, energy, a world of unimaginable beauty and complexity, us. We call this...
Hard Truth and Hope in the Story of Job
Ever since I first read the story of Job decades ago, it has bothered me. The oldest story in the Bible, it addresses head-on the question that plagues anyone who takes God seriously: How can a loving God stand by while a good person suffers? The story begins with a...
U.S. and The World
The tragedy of American foreign affairs since World War II
It seems indisputable that since World War II, American engagement with the rest of the world has been hugely costly in American lives and treasure. On balance, is the United States and the rest of the world better off? I would like to say “Yes” but cannot. For a...
Living Smart Living Well
How to home in on truth and filter out nonsense.
Every day each of us is deluged with advice on what to expect, what we should think about subjects that are important but well beyond our immediate expertise, whom to believe, and how we should or should not act. All of it is delivered with authority and assurance,...
Quotes
Over the decades, I occasionally have come across quotes that were striking in their originality and wisdom as to how to look at the world and conduct oneself. I have not seen most of them anywhere else. You might enjoy perusing the collection. The time to make up...