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• China Versus America: the Candid Truth

  

  I was recently on panel, with two Chinese natives, comparing our respective countries’ cultures. Here (a bit condensed) is my presentation:China is a great... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Do You Believe Poverty is Worsening?

  

  The global population living in extreme poverty has risen in the last 20 years – indeed has almost doubled – say two-thirds of Americans in a recent survey.... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Human Ingenuity: a New Way to Count

  

  My business is collector coins, which I often have to count. When they’re all identical they can be counted in stacks of ten. But for non-uniform coins, there... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Syrian Refugees at the Golden Door

  

  While Europe is taking in around a million Syrian refugees, the U.S. has signed up for 10,000. But even that’s being challenged unless our government can... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Fantasy Sports Versus the Killjoy Nanny State

  

  The issue of the day is whether online “fantasy sports” (where you select imaginary teams from among real players, whose actual performance determines winners)... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• God and Man in Paris

  

  We all must die.But we don’t let that stop us enjoying life. Indeed, it makes it all the more precious. Those Parisians were out enjoying life – at... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Next President Will Be . . . Marco Rubio

  

  News flash: The Rational Optimist blog can now call the next presidential election for . . . yes, Rubio.We’re told Trump and Carson are “frontrunners” for the... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Self-Driving Cars – Buckle Your Seatbelts

  

  Recently I responded to an essay suggesting that technological progress is juddering to a halt. Its author pointed to airplanes, hardly changed in decades. Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Charter Schools: How Democrats Betray Blacks

  

  “Draining” is the word of choice. As in “draining money from public schools.” As if charter schools hurt public education – a sinister plot (“corporate” of... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Is “Socialism?”

  

  Bernie Sanders calls himself a “democratic socialist.” The word “socialist” has gotten much use in the past century. “Nazi” was actually short for “National... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Being Mortal

  

  How would you like to spend your last days in a nursing home? In a tiny cubicle with no privacy, no autonomy, no possessions, everything gone that made life... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hollow Hillary’s Trade Terrors

  

  Republican presidential candidates are falling over themselves pandering to a right-wing activist base that dominates party primaries – exemplified by Scott... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Things We’re Not Allowed to Say

  

  Blacks can say the N-word. Whites like me cannot. Not even in my own blog, nor even when talking of its offensiveness (as Christopher Hitchens once learned... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The End of the Man on the White Horse

  

  The Man on the White Horse is a hoary staple of the political imagination. The hero, with integrity, ideals, and vision, the leader who will put things right. W... Read more

  Posted on 02 October 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Muslims Killing Muslims

  

  In the news: Over 700 killed in a human stampede at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.A presidential candidate was recently asked whether something about... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Deep Down Dark: The Chilean Miners’ Rescue

  

  You are in a small hole inside the very bowels of a mountain, with thousands of feet of rock between you and daylight. Then the mountain violently convulses, an... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The App Generation

  

  Maybe you’ve noticed a lot of folks fixated on their phones. Recently I saw some college kids at a bus stop, three fiddling with phones, the fourth not. “Hey... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Telling It Like It Is: My Presidential Campaign Speech

  

  My fellow Americans:I didn’t want to run for president, but alas now I must. Mr. Trump supposedly “tells it like it is.” Unfortunately he – and other... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Of Quantum Mechanics, Cabbages, Kings, and Carpets

  

  Astronomer Arthur Eddington said the universe is not just stranger than we imagine, it’s stranger than we can imagine. I’ve written about the biggest question:... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Michael Gerson on Obama’s Syria Disgrace

  

  I don’t normally “re-blog,” preferring my own words. But Michael Gerson’s latest column about Syria says it better than I could (click here).That photo of the... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY