Putting the “Service” Back Into Public Service, Part IV
This is Part IV of the series, A History of Government Employment. Everything we have learned, from public employment in the USSR, the European...
Ayn Rand’s Children of the Damned, a 1971 Prophecy Fulfilled
...and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that...
Can a Sane Society Elect a Demented Man for President?
Thankfully, we only have to think about this sort of thing for three more days, for however the courts decide how it will end,...
Mark Twain, Caiaphas and the Mystery of Satan
During one of his stand-up routines late in life, Mark Twain said he'd always wanted to meet Satan. Shake his hand. (I paraphrase from...
The Iffiness in Science that makes Everything a Coin Flip
I have several fits-and-starts in my stack of stuff, all centering around scientific debates not just about how human history is written, but how...