Articles by Topic
I hope you will have a look at the earlier entries as well as the latest.
Government, Markets, and You
Who will Decide the 2024 Presidential Election?
One thing is certain about the 2024 presidential election. Donald Trump’s opponents will stop at nothing, short, I hope, of violence, to keep him out of the White House. Fair or unfair, legal or illegal, Democrats will continue to use the judicial system not just to...
Sowell’s Questions: What You Should Ask About Any Political Proposal
How do you decide whether some politician’s or government official’s proposal makes sense, i.e., whether, on balance, it will make your and other people’s lives better? None of us has the time to explore all the ins and outs. How then do we balance making the best...
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...
Climate Change
The Case for Climate Crisis and Why It Is Wrong
The key premise of the claim that there is a climate crisis is that CO2 in the atmosphere traps heat in the form of outgoing long wave radiation(OLR). Radiation, which is energy carried by electromagnetic waves vibrating at different wavelengths, is a means of heat...
What To Read Or Watch For The Truth About Climate Change
If you have some interest and a little time, but don’t want to get too “into the weeds”, watch The Climate Movie for a terrific, entertaining overview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4vSMj4R5Rg If you want to know what three world-class physicists think about...
Why CO2 Emissions Are Not A Problem Now And Never Will Be
The American government and European governments are forcing obedience to the idea that human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide will lead to catastrophic global warming and must be eliminated. This idea is entirely and unequivocally false. CO2 is not now and never...
Green Energy
The Toxic Downside of Green Energy
The push for replacing energy from fossil fuels with “green” energy – wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles – addresses a problem that doesn’t exist. https://truthornonsense.com/what-to-read-or-watch-for-the-truth-about-climate-change/...
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
Is There a Why?
John Lennox, Christian apologist and professor emeritus of mathematics at Oxford, reminds us that while science can tell us how our world works, it cannot tell us anything about why we are here. His observation strikes me as unarguably true, but it begs the question...
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...
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
Easy Steps for Staying As Healthy As You Can for As Long As You Can
The best, simplest, most common sense explanation I have heard for what determines one’s health came from a retired physician friend of mind: “Your health is 1/3 genes, 1/3 luck, and 1/3 how you take care of yourself. His point was not that the proportions were just...
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...