Last updated 03/06/24
What follows is a complete index of the posts I’ve published at Loquitur’s Letter. Some posts are assigned to more than one category.
America Disunited
1963: The Year Zero (08/07/22)
Affirmative Action: A Modest Proposal (09/25/23)
An Agenda for Conservatives (10/20/22)
America Is Dead (06/06/23)
Another Way to Declare Independence (07/04/22)
The Apotheosis of Equality (11/07/22)
Asymmetrical (Ideological) Warfare (11/08/22)
Attaining Social Justice (10/16/22)
At The Dawn of Wokeism (12/05/22)
The Biden Plan (09/01/22)
The Bitter Fruits of America’s Disintegration (11/01/22)
A Bobo in Cloud-Cuckoo Land (08/30/22)
The British Roots of the Founding, and of Liberty in America (08/07/22)
Can Left and Right Be Reconciled? (10/07/22)
China to the Rescue? (08/07/23)
The Constitution: Myths and Realities (08/18/22)
Corresponding with a "Collabo" (08/17/22)
The Culture War (08/16/22)
Data vs. Statistical Relationships (08/31/22)
The Death of a Nation (11/29/22)
Defending the Offensive (09/25/22)
Democracy or Republic? (09/03/22)
The Detroit Template (03/02/23)
Did the GOP Under-Perform in House Races? (11/11/22)
Disposition and Ideology (10/08/22)
Dystopian Prospects (01/22/23)
Election 2020: Lost or Stolen? (10/08/22)
For the Never-Trump “Conservatives” out There (08/19/22)
The Fourth Great Awakening (10/05/22)
The Hardening of Ideological Affiliations in America (11/12/22)
How the Constitution Was Lost (04/26/23)
How Will Civil War II Start? (04/15/23)
If Men Were Angels (03/26/23)
“Inherit the Wind” in Retrospect (05/28/23)
IQ, Political Correctness, and America’s Present Condition (09/12/22)
I Told You So, Virginia (11/08/23)
I Want My Country Back (02/10/23)
Leftism As Adolescent Rebellion (09/24/23)
Leftism: The Nirvana Fallacy on Stilts (09/14/23)
Leftist Condescension (10/17/22)
Left-Libertarians, Obama, and the Zimmerman Case (09/29/22)
“Liberalism” and Sovereignty (08/26/22)
The Libertarian-Conservative Divide (11/18/22)
A Man on Horseback? (09/07/22)
The Meaning of the Red Ripple (11/09/22)
A Measure of Political Polarization: The Decline of Collegiality in the Confirmation of Justices (09/12/23)
The Modern Presidency, from TR to JRB (09/24/23)
Moral Courage, Moral Standards, and Political Polarization (11/24/22)
The Most Disturbing Thing about Biden’s Speech (09/08/22)
A National Divorce (07/15/22)
A National Divorce Reconsidered (07/14/23)
A National Divorce Revisited (02/21/23)
The New Dispensation (11/13/23)
Obamagate and Beyond (10/28/22)
Old Wisdom Revisited (09/03/23)
Our Enemy, the State (02/15/23)
The Paradoxes and Consequences of Liberty and Prosperity (05/15/23)
Perpetual Victimhood (07/20/23)
A Premature but Prescient Requiem for the Constitution (12/11/22)
The Real Tragedy of the End of “Free Speech” (06/07/23)
The Right to Revolution (09/03/22)
The Shape of Things to Come (12/18/22)
Scott Adams and Racism (02/28/23)
The Serpent in the Garden (10/10/23)
Smugness Rampant (03/04/24)
Society and Genetic Kinship (02/04/23)
That Which Dare Not Be Named (07/07/23)
The State of the World (12/31/22)
Superiority (09/21/22)
The Supreme Court Recognizes the Legality of Secession (04/18/23)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
True Libertarianism and Its Enemies (11/26/22)
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy (07/27/23)
What Do Wokesters Want? (12/02/22)
What Happened to America? (07/21/22)
What Is Tribalism? (01/28/23)
What’s to Be Done about Section 230? (02/25/23)
When in the Course of Human Events … (01/09/22)
When Marginalism Matters (06/20/23)
Where Will It All End? (08/22/22)
Who’s the Real Fascist? (09/05/22)
“White Privilege” (08/26/22)
Whither (Wither) America? (08/10/22)
Why the Left Hates Israel (and Further Thoughts) (10/15/23)
Why the Mar-a-Lago Raid? (09/13/22)
Will Texas Secede? (07/10/22)
Crime and Punishment
A Conspiracy Theory (07/12/23)
The Detroit Template (03/02/23)
Dystopian Prospects (01/22/23)
Free Will, Crime, and Punishment (09/23/22)
His Life as a Victim (08/25/22)
Jerks and Psychopaths (08/08/22)
Justice in America: Hunter Biden and Daniel Penny (07/04/23)
Left-Libertarians, Obama, and the Zimmerman Case (09/29/22)
Mass Murder: Reaping What Was Sown (07/11/22)
The Principles of Actionable Harm (12/19/22)
Psychobabble (01/28/23)
Saving the Innocent (09/07/22)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
War, Slavery, and Reparations (11/13/22)
What Is Justice? (09/25/22)
Why the Mar-a-Lago Raid? (09/13/22)
Deeply Divisive Subjects: Abortion, Immigration, Race, and More
Abortion Q&A (12/26/22)
The Apotheosis of Equality (11/07/22)
At The Dawn of Wokeism (12/05/22)
Believe All Women? (07/28/22)
Break Out the “Systemic Racism” Card (02/21/23)
Can Left and Right Be Reconciled? (10/07/22)
"Climate Change" (11/08/22)
Critical Race Theory: Where It Really Leads (07/12/22)
The Culture War (08/16/22)
“Cultural Appropriation” (07/16/22)
The Danger of Marginal Thinking (10/27/22)
Data vs. Statistical Relationships (08/31/22)
Defending the Offensive (09/25/22)
Democracy or Republic? (09/03/22)
Election 2020: Lost or Stolen? (10/08/22)
For the Never-Trump “Conservatives” out There (08/19/22)
The Fourth Great Awakening (10/05/22)
Freespace and Me (10/18/22)
How Not to Be an Effective Altruist (12/23/22)
How (Not) to Combat Homelessness (12/12/22)
How’s Your Implicit Attitude? (08/03/22)
If Men Were Angels (03/26/23)
“Inherit the Wind” in Retrospect (05/28/23)
Intelligence: Selected Readings (10/29/22)
Is There a Right to Privacy? (07/25/22)
IQ, Political Correctness, and America’s Present Condition (09/12/22)
I Want My Country Back (02/10/23)
Left-Libertarians, Obama, and the Zimmerman Case (09/29/22)
Moral Courage, Moral Standards, and Political Polarization (11/24/22)
More Thoughts about Abortion (10/08/22)
Open Borders? (07/13/22)
The Paradoxes and Consequences of Liberty and Prosperity (05/15/23)
Perpetual Victimhood (07/20/23)
Psychobabble (01/28/23)
The Real Tragedy of the End of “Free Speech” (06/07/23)
Saving the Innocent (09/07/22)
Scott Adams and Racism (02/28/23)
The Shape of Things to Come (12/18/22)
Social Constructs (07/27/22)
Social Security: A Primer (08/30/22)
Society and Genetic Kinship (02/04/23)
Superiority (09/21/22)
That Which Dare Not Be Named (07/07/23)
The Transgender Fad and Its Consequences (09/28/22)
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy (07/27/23)
War, Slavery, and Reparations (11/13/22)
What Is Tribalism? (01/28/23)
“White Privilege” (08/26/22)
Who’s the Real Fascist? (09/05/22)
Why the Left Hates Israel (and Further Thoughts) (10/15/23)
Economics and Economists
America’s Mega-Depression (08/17/22)
The Apotheosis of Equality (11/07/22)
Asymmetrical (Ideological) Warfare (11/08/22)
The Bad News about Economic Growth (07/19/22)
“Capitalism” Is a Smear-Word (02/01/23)
Change (12/14/22)
Columnist, Heal Thyself (08/23/22)
The Danger of Marginal Thinking (10/27/22)
The Downside of Capitalism (07/28/22)
Economists and Voting (11/06/22)
The Great Resignation in Perspective (11/23/22)
How Not to Be an Effective Altruist (12/23/22)
How (Not) to Combat Homelessness (12/12/22)
The Interest-Group Paradox (05/21/23)
Is the Bear Market Over? (02/02/23)
Jonathan Swift Redux (01/11/23)
The Keynesian Multiplier: Fiction vs. Fact (07/05/22)
Leftist Condescension (10/17/22)
“Libertarian Paternalism” Revisited (07/29/22)
The Myth of Social Welfare: Part I (11/13/22)
The Myth of Social Welfare: Part II (11/15/22)
Neo-Utilitarianism (09/28/23)
Our Enemy, the State (02/15/23)
The Present Inflationary Episode in Perspective (09/05/22)
The Real Story about Economic Growth (09/14/23)
The Relative Depth of Recessions Since World War II (11/28/22)
Socialism, Communism, and Three Paradoxes (02/01/23)
Socialist Calculation and the Turing Test (09/06/22)
Social Security: A Primer (08/30/22)
The State of the Economy and the Myth of the “Red Hot” Labor Market (08/09/22)
Stats and Commentary: January 14, 2023 (01/14/23)
Stats and Commentary: January 31, 2023 (01/31/23)
Stats and Commentary: February 26, 2023 (02/26/23)
Stats and Commentary: May 10, 2023 (05/10/23)
Supply-Side Economics: Getting Down to Cases (10/12/23)
A Third-World Country? (01/13/23)
What Does the “P” in “GDP” Stand For? (02/04/24)
What Will Happen When the Social Security Trust Fund Is Depleted? (02/25/23)
When Marginalism Matters (06/20/23)
Entertainments, Trivia, and Nostalgia
About Me (11/04/22)
Achilles and the Tortoise Revisited (04/26/23)
All-Purpose Culprits (02/03/23)
Attaining Social Justice (10/16/22)
At The Dawn of Wokeism (12/05/22)
The Bad News and Bad News about Major-League Baseball (12/10/22)
A Baseball Memory (04/12/23)
Baseball’s Greatest Hitters for Average (05/19/23)
A Blast from the Past (12/23/22)
The Cocoon Age (11/16/22)
Daylight Saving Time Doesn’t Kill (11/02/22)
Driving and Politics (08/02/22)
Farcebook (02/12/23)
First As Tragedy … (02/12/23)
Getting It Perfect (08/06/22)
Ghosts of Christmases Past (08/21/22)
I Hate to Hear Twenty-Somethings Speak (11/15/22)
“Inherit the Wind” in Retrospect (05/28/23)
Intermission: More Great Hitters (06/09/23)
I’ve Got a Little List … (08/03/22)
Knot for Me (10/03/22)
Like a Fish in Water (09/24/23)
Looking Askance at History (08/24/22)
A Look Back at a Look Forward (01/20/23)
A Look into the Vanished Past (09/09/22)
Music or Noise? (10/17/22)
Names Aren’t What They Used to Be (11/27/22)
A Night at the Movies (07/27/22)
The Passing of Red Brick Schoolhouses and a Way of Life (08/18/22)
A Picture Is Worth … (01/27/23)
Reflections on Aging (11/02/22)
Rich October Skies (10/04/22)
Since When? (09/09/22)
Stuff (“Liberal” Yuppie) White People Like (11/20/22)
Summer School? (09/05/22)
Superiority (09/21/22)
The Silent Generation Perseveres (02/11/23)
Theodore Dalrymple Speaks for Me (05/21/23)
There’s No Place Like Home (03/22/23)
To Pay or Not to Pay … (04/18/23)
Toxic Femininity (12/08/23)
Wordplay (09/12/22)
Famous and Infamous Thinkers
Aristotle (recycling Zeno):
Achilles and the Tortoise Revisited (04/26/23)
Bryan Caplan:
A Moralist’s Moral Blindness (12/28/22)
Jonathan Swift Redux (01/11/23)
Tolerance (09/27/22)
More Pseudo-Libertarianism (02/09/23)
The Folly of Pacifism (02/18/23)
David Brooks and Bret Stephens, “conservatives” at The New York Times:
Columnist, Heal Thyself (08/23/22)
Our Miss Brooks (08/24/22)
Miss Brooks’s “Grand Bargain” (08/25/22)
David Brooks, Useful Idiot for the Left (08/27/22)
Baseball or Soccer? (08/28/22)
A Bobo in Cloud-Cuckoo Land (08/30/22)
Babbling Brooks Rides Again (09/02/22)
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Good-bye Mr. Pitts (12/27/22)
Peter Singer, et al.
Abortion Q&A (12/26/22)
How Not to Be an Effective Altruist (12/23/22)
More Thoughts about Abortion (10/08/22)
Thomas Sowell (famous, not infamous)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
Cass Sunstein, plausible authoritarian:
Richard Thaler
“Libertarian Paternalism” Revisited (07/29/22)
History
1963: The Year Zero (08/07/22)
The Bitter Fruits of America’s Disintegration (11/01/22)
The British Roots of the Founding, and of Liberty in America (08/07/22)
A Conspiracy Theory (07/12/23)
The Constitution: Myths and Realities (08/18/22)
Communism vs. “Communism” (02/02/23)
Convergence Theory Revisited (10/10/22)
Democracy or Republic? (09/03/22)
Election 2020: Lost or Stolen? (10/08/22)
For the Never-Trump “Conservatives” out There (08/19/22)
“Inherit the Wind” in Retrospect (05/28/23)
Is The Constitution a Contract? (01/31/23)
Looking Askance at History (08/24/22)
The Modern Presidency, from TR to JRB (09/24/23)
Monarchs of England (08/07/22)
Obamagate and Beyond (10/28/22)
My Defense of the A-Bomb (05/29/23)
Peak Civilization (08/10/22)
A Premature but Prescient Requiem for the Constitution (12/11/22)
Presidential Trivia (11/12/22)
Scott Adams and Racism (02/28/23)
Since When? (09/09/22)
The Supreme Court Recognizes the Legality of Secession (04/18/23)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
Thoughts on 9/11 (09/11/22)
Turning Points in America’s History (08/29/22)
U.S. Supreme Court: Lines of Succession (11/02/22)
Intelligence and its Application
About Me (11/04/22)
Data vs. Statistical Relationships (08/31/22)
Free Will, Crime, and Punishment (09/23/22)
Has Humanity Reached Peak Intelligence? (07/18/22)
How’s Your Implicit Attitude (08/03/22)
“Intelligence” as a Dirty Word (08/06/22)
Intelligence, Personality, Politics, and Happiness (01/28/23)
Intelligence: Selected Readings (10/29/22)
Intuition vs. Rationality (07/23/22)
IQ, Political Correctness, and America’s Present Condition (09/12/22)
Is Consciousness an Illusion? (09/20/22)
Jerks and Psychopaths (08/08/22)
O.J.’s Glove and the Enlightenment (03/24/23)
A Picture Is Worth … (01/27/23)
The Residue of Choice (08/19/22)
Solitude (12/28/22)
That Which Dare Not Be Named (07/07/23)
Words Fail Us (08/15/22)
Language: Its Uses and Abuses
Achilles and the Tortoise Revisited (04/26/23)
At The Dawn of Wokeism (12/05/22)
“Capitalism” Is a Smear-Word (02/01/23)
Cloaks of Authority (02/02/24)
Communism vs. “Communism” (02/02/23)
Defending the Offensive (09/25/22)
“Intelligence” as a Dirty Word (08/06/22)
A Lawyerly Variation of a Fallacious “Proof” (04/23/23)
“Licking” in the Age of Wokeness (02/08/24)
Preposition Proliferation (12/24/22)
Scott Adams and Racism (02/28/23)
Since When? (09/09/22)
Tolerance (09/27/22)
What Is Tribalism? (01/28/23)
Wordplay (09/12/22)
Words Fail Us (08/15/22)
Writing: A Guide:
Introduction and Part I (08/08/22)
Part II (08/09/22)
Part III (08/12/22)
Part IV (08/12/22)
Liberty, Rights, and the Constitution
Abortion Q&A (12/26/22)
An Agenda for Conservatives (10/20/22)
The Biden Plan (09/01/22)
The British Roots of the Founding, and of Liberty in America (08/07/22)
The Constitution: Myths and Realities (08/18/22)
Data vs. Statistical Relationships (08/31/22)
Democracy or Republic? (09/03/22)
Dystopian Prospects (01/22/23)
Freespace and Me (10/18/22)
Getting “Free Speech” Wrong (07/04/23)
How the Constitution Was Lost (04/26/23)
How Will Civil War II Start? (04/15/23)
If Men Were Angels (03/26/23)
IQ, Political Correctness, and America’s Present Condition (09/12/22)
Is The Constitution a Contract? (01/31/23)
Is There a Right to Privacy? (07/25/22)
Judicial Restraint = Judicial Activism (08/10/23)
A Lawyerly Variation of a Fallacious “Proof” (04/23/23)
The Libertarian-Conservative Divide (11/18/22)
A Man on Horseback? (09/07/22)
A More Perfect Constitution (12/17/22)
A More Perfect Constitution: Excerpt 1 (09/28/23)
A More Perfect Constitution: Excerpt 2 (09/29/23)
A More Perfect Constitution: Excerpt 3 (10/24/23)
More Thoughts about Abortion (10/08/22)
The Most Disturbing Thing about Biden’s Speech (09/08/22)
Natural Law and Natural Rights Revisited (07/01/2023)
Natural Rights, Liberty, the Golden Rule, and Leviathan (07/25/22)
Obamagate and Beyond (10/28/22)
On Liberty (07/04/22)
Our Enemy, the State (02/15/23)
Out-Takes from “Obamagate and Beyond”
A Picture Is Worth … (01/27/23)
A Premature but Prescient Requiem for the Constitution (12/11/22)
The Principles of Actionable Harm (12/19/22)
Pseudo-Libertarian Sophistry vs. True Libertarianism (02/10/23)
The Real Tragedy of the End of “Free Speech” (06/07/23)
The Right to Revolution (09/03/22)
Saving the Innocent (09/07/22)
The Slippery Slope from Liberty to Tyranny (08/15/22)
Social Security: A Primer (08/30/22)
Social Norms and Liberty (08/14/22)
State Action As Private Action (12/21/22)
The Supreme Court Recognizes the Legality of Secession (04/18/23)
That Which Dare Not Be Named (07/07/23)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
True Libertarianism and Its Enemies (11/26/22)
A Weak Argument for Freedom of Speech (02/03/24)
What Do Wokesters Want? (12/02/22)
What Is a “Living Constitution?” (10/03/23)
What’s to Be Done about Section 230? (02/25/23)
Who’s the Real Fascist? (09/05/22)
Why Freedom of Speech? (07/14/22)
Metaphysical Matters
Achilles and the Tortoise Revisited (04/26/23)
Einstein’s Errors:
Prologue (08/27/22)
Part I: The Impetus for this Series (08/28/22)
Part II: The Standard Explanation of Special Relativity (08/31/22)
Part III: A Fatal Flaw? (09/10/22)
Part IV: A Further Look at Simultaneity (09/21/22)
Part V: The Velocity Conundrum (10/19/22)
Part VI: Getting Light Right (10/30/22)
Part IX: Spacetime Isn’t Time (12/02/22)
Existence and Atheism (07/09/22)
Is Consciousness an Illusion? (09/20/22)
Free Will, Crime, and Punishment (09/23/22)
The Least Evil Option (09/23/22)
The Myth of Social Welfare: Part I (11/13/22)
The Myth of Social Welfare: Part II (11/15/22)
Philosophical Musings:
Part I: Time, Existence, and Science (11/04/22)
Part II: Evolution or Devolution? (11/05/22)
Part III: Survival and Thinking (11/06/22)
Part IV: Irrational Rationality (11/07/22)
Part V: Desiderata as Beliefs (11/09/22)
Part VI: Beliefs, Herds, and Oppression (11/10/22)
The Reality of Consciousness (10/01/23)
Words Fail Us (08/15/22)
Zeno Revisited (Again) (02/04/24)
Politics, Politicians, and Government in Action
1963: The Year Zero (08/07/22)
About the CIA and Trump (02/14/24)
An Agenda for Conservatives (10/20/22)
America Is Dead (06/06/23)
America’s Mega-Depression (08/17/22)
Another Measure of Political Polarization (01/02/24)
The Apotheosis of Equality (11/07/22)
Asymmetrical (Ideological) Warfare (11/08/22)
Attaining Social Justice (10/16/22)
The Balloon Test? (02/13/23)
The Biden Business: What’s Next (06/26/23)
Biden: Blood and Money Revisited (09/22/23)
Biden Has Money in the Bank and Blood on His Hands (07/29/23)
Biden’s Popularity and Gasoline Prices (09/04/22)
The Biden Plan (09/01/22)
The Bitter Fruits of America’s Disintegration (11/01/22)
Cabinetry (08/23/23)
Can Left and Right Be Reconciled? (10/07/22)
Change (12/14/22)
Change Horses Midstream? (10/15/23)
China to the Rescue? (08/07/23)
"Climate Change" (11/08/22)
Communism vs. “Communism” (02/02/23)
A Conspiracy Theory (07/12/23)
Convergence Theory Revisited (10/10/22)
The Culture War (08/16/22)
The Danger of Marginal Thinking (10/27/22)
Data vs. Statistical Relationships (08/31/22)
The Death of a Nation (11/29/22)
Democracy or Republic? (09/03/22)
The Detroit Template (03/02/23)
Did the GOP Under-Perform in House Races? (11/11/22)
Disposition and Ideology (10/08/22)
Dystopian Prospects (01/22/23)
Election 2020: Lost or Stolen? (10/08/22)
For the Never-Trump “Conservatives” out There (08/19/22)
Freespace and Me (10/18/22)
Further Thoughts about China and the Future of America (08/17/23)
The Great Resignation in Perspective (11/23/22)
The Hardening of Ideological Affiliations in America (11/12/22)
His Life as a Victim (08/25/22)
How Good Are the Presidential Polls? (12/26/23)
How the Constitution Was Lost (04/26/23)
How to View Defense Spending (08/20/22)
How Will Civil War II Start? (04/15/23)
Hurricane Hysteria (09/30/22)
If Men Were Angels (03/26/23)
The Interest-Group Paradox (05/21/23)
IQ, Political Correctness, and America’s Present Condition (09/12/22)
Is the Police State Here? (08/13/22)
Is Taxation Slavery? (08/14/22)
I Want My Country Back (02/10/23)
Leftism as Crypto-Fascism (08/24/22)
Leftism in America (07/26/22)
Leftist Condescension (10/17/22)
The Left-”Libertarian” Axis (07/22/22)
Left-Libertarians, Obama, and the Zimmerman Case (09/29/22)
The Libertarian-Conservative Divide (11/18/22)
Looking Askance at History (08/24/22)
A Man on Horseback? (09/07/22)
The Mar-a-Lago Raid and Election 2024 (02/15/24)
The McNamara Legacy: A Personal Perspective (09/10/22)
The Meaning of the Red Ripple (11/09/22)
A Measure of Political Polarization: The Decline of Collegiality in the Confirmation of Justices (09/12/23)
The Modern Presidency, from TR to JRB (09/24/23)
Moral Courage, Moral Standards, and Political Polarization (11/24/22)
More Pseudo-Libertarianism (02/09/23)
The Most Disturbing Thing about Biden’s Speech (09/08/22)
The Myth of Social Welfare: Part I (11/13/22)
The Myth of Social Welfare: Part II (11/15/22)
Neo-Utilitarianism (09/28/23)
A New Political Paradigm? (07/10/22)
Obamagate and Beyond (10/28/22)
O.J.’s Glove and the Enlightenment (03/24/23)
Obamagate and Beyond (10/28/22)
Our Enemy, the State (02/15/23)
Out-Takes from “Obamagate and Beyond”
The Paradoxes and Consequences of Liberty and Prosperity (05/15/23)
Peak Civilization (08/10/22)
Perpetual Victimhood (07/20/23)
The Persecution of Trump Will Backfire on Democrats (06/10/23)
A Platform to Stand On (12/28/22)
Pot. Kettle. Black. (11/16/23)
Political Conservatism Is Centrist (12/23/23)
Political Ideologies (09/18/22)
“Political Ideologies”: A Codicil (12/11/22)
Politics, Sophistry, and the Academy (10/16/22)
Presidential Trivia (11/12/22)
A Premature but Prescient Requiem for the Constitution (12/11/22)
The Principles of Actionable Harm (12/19/22)
The Real Story about Economic Growth (09/14/23)
The Residue of a Powerful Government (02/12/24)
The Right to Revolution (09/03/22)
The Roots of Statism in America (09/28/23)
Saving the Innocent (09/07/22)
Scott Adams and Racism (02/28/23)
The Sky Is Not Falling (11/20/23)
The Slippery Slope from Liberty to Tyranny (08/15/22)
Socialist Calculation and the Turing Test (09/06/22)
Social Security: A Primer (08/30/22)
Socialism, Communism, and Three Paradoxes (02/01/23)
Society and Genetic Kinship (02/04/23)
State Action As Private Action (12/21/22)
Stats and Commentary: January 14, 2023 (01/14/23)
Stats and Commentary: January 31, 2023 (01/31/23)
Stats and Commentary: February 26, 2023 (02/26/23)
Stats and Commentary: May 10, 2023 (05/10/23)
Supply-Side Economics: Getting Down to Cases (10/12/23)
A Third-World Country? (01/13/23)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
Thoughts on 9/11 (09/11/22)
The Transgender Fad and Its Consequences (09/28/22)
True Libertarianism and Its Enemies (11/26/22)
Trump vs. Biden: 1 (09/15/23)
Trump vs. Biden: 2 (11/02/23)
Trump vs. Biden: 3 (11/04/23)
Trump vs. Biden: 4 (11/20/23)
Trump vs. Biden: 5 (11/23/23)
Trump vs. Biden: 6 (12/14/23)
Trump vs. Biden: 7 (01/26/24)
Trump vs. Biden: 8 (02/15/24)
Trump vs. Biden: 9 (03/02/24)
The State of the World (12/31/22)
Summer School? (09/05/22)
Turning Points in America’s History (08/29/22)
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy (07/27/23)
Victor’s Justice (09/11/23)
The Way Ahead (09/15/22)
We, the Children of the Enlightenment (09/25/22)
What Do I See in My Crystal Ball? (01/26/24)
What Do Wokesters Want? (12/02/22)
What Is Tribalism? (01/28/23)
What’s the Use? (12/21/22)
What’s to Be Done about Section 230? (02/25/23)
What Will Happen When the Social Security Trust Fund Is Depleted? (02/25/23)
When in the Course of Human Events … (01/09/22)
When Marginalism Matters (06/20/23)
Where Will It All End? (08/22/22)
Who’s the Real Fascist? (09/05/22)
Whither (Wither) America? (08/10/22)
Why the Mar-a-Lago Raid? (09/13/22)
Will Israel and Other Issues Split the Dems? (11/26/23)
Science, Pseudoscience, and the Tools of Science
Achilles and the Tortoise Revisited (04/26/23)
Analytical and Scientific Arrogance (08/22/22)
Another Error by Einstein? (03/02/24)
"Climate Change" (11/08/22)
"Climate Change": A Bibliography (10/05/22 — updated frequently)
CO2 Fail (07/26/22)
Deduction, Induction, and Knowledge (06/09/23)
Demystifying Science (09/06/22)
Einstein’s Errors:
Prologue (08/27/22)
Part I: The Impetus for this Series (08/28/22)
Part II: The Standard Explanation of Special Relativity (08/31/22)
Part III: A Fatal Flaw? (09/10/22)
Part IV: A Further Look at Simultaneity (09/21/22)
Part V: The Velocity Conundrum (10/19/22)
Part VI: Getting Light Right (10/30/22)
Getting It Perfect (08/06/22)
How’s Your Implicit Attitude? (08/03/22)
The Human Conceit (07/30/22)
Hurricane Hysteria (09/30/22)
Is Consciousness an Illusion? (09/20/22)
Is Science Self-Correcting? (09/20/22)
Is Scientific Skepticism Irrational? (06/07/23)
The McNamara Legacy: A Personal Perspective (09/10/22)
Measuring the Urban Heat Island Effect (09/26/23)
Modeling Is Not Science (07/07/22)
My War on the Misuse of Probability (07/10/22)
O.J.’s Glove and the Enlightenment (03/24/23)
Pattern-Seeking (09/20/22)
Philosophical Musings:
Part I: Time, Existence, and Science (11/04/22)
Part II: Evolution or Devolution? (11/05/22)
Part III: Survival and Thinking (11/06/22)
Part IV: Irrational Rationality (11/07/22)
Part V: Desiderata as Beliefs (11/09/22)
Part VI: Beliefs, Herds, and Oppression (11/10/22)
Politics, Sophistry, and the Academy (10/16/22)
The Reality of Consciousness (10/01/23)
The Reality of Consciousness (10/01/23)
Social Constructs (07/27/22)
Socialist Calculation and the Turing Test (09/06/22)
Understanding Science (10/19/22)
What Is Natural? (06/10/23)
When in the Course of Human Events … (01/09/22)
The White House Brochures on Climate Change (11/03/22)
Words Fail Us (08/15/22)
War, Peace, and Strategy
An Addendum to “Grand Strategy”: Neo-Isolationism (10/1/22)
Analytical and Scientific Arrogance (08/22/22)
The Balloon Test? (02/13/23)
But Wouldn’t Warlords Take Over? (08/20/22)
China to the Rescue? (08/07/23)
China’s Ascendancy (12/23/23)
The Coming Showdown (12/26/23)
The Folly of Pacifism (02/18/23)
Further Thoughts about China and the Future of America (08/17/23)
Further Thoughts about Cyber-War (11/09/22)
A Grand Strategy for the United States (09/29/22)
How to View Defense Spending (08/20/22)
The Human Cost of Dithering (02/12/23)
The Iraq War in Retrospect (08/03/22)
Is This How It Ends? (11/30/22)
The Least Evil Option (09/23/22)
“Liberalism” and Sovereignty (08/26/22)
A Man on Horseback? (09/07/22)
The McNamara Legacy: A Personal Perspective (09/10/22)
The Meaning of the War in Ukraine (07/26/22)
My Defense of the A-Bomb (05/29/23)
Mutual Deterrence and the War in Ukraine (09/27/22)
Pay Any Price? (07/13/22)
Proportionality in War (01/28/24)
The State of the World (12/31/22)
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society” (08/27/22)
Thoughts on 9/11 (09/11/22)
Turning Points in America’s History (08/29/22)
War, Slavery, and Reparations (11/13/22)
War with China? (11/19/22)
The Way Ahead (09/15/22)
The World Turned Upside Down (01/12/23)
World War II in Retrospect (07/08/22)
Why the Left Hates Israel (and Further Thoughts) (10/15/23)
Why Trade Doesn’t Deter Aggression (11/18/23)
Index of Posts
Whew!