Journalists
"Journalists worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their...
Tag: Politics
The Limits of Power
What is the limit on the government’s power to make you do things for your own good?...
Flashback about Politics
I'm often wrong and I was very wrong in August 2008 when I wrote: "We are well into the election season and I along...
Plato on Participation
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your...
Ending Suicide Bombing
"The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up...
Skin in the Game
Back in 2002 I read Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb and became a fan of his writing. Since then I've read all of...
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes
"We’re on, what, the eighth or ninth consecutive “most important election of our lifetimes”? In the past decades,...
Suicide of the West
Jonah Goldberg is a great writer and an even better researcher. In this book, which I will quote often in maxim posts,...
Economics and Dictators
"Dictators are rarely good economic managers." WSJ editorial referring to Turkey and Venezuela For every Lee Kwan Yoo...
War
War is a game to be played with a smiling face. Winston Churchill In 1916 during his four months in the trenches in...
