Articles about Society

First principles (2020-08-19)
The Dummies Edition of The New, New World Order (2020-04-20)
Ray Dalio on COVID-19 (2020-04-18)
The Unfolding — Anatomy of the COVID-19 financial crisis (2020-04-12)
The case against identity politics (2017-03-23)
Email, please (2016-10-12)
Milton Friedman on Greed (2016-06-27)
Paying one’s “fair share” of taxes (2016-03-23)
Taxes paid vs benefits received (2016-02-03)
On the right of government to mandate what we use as money (2015-05-24)
Politics, Society and Corruption (2015-03-19)
Fucking politicians—The consequences of having donated to the Ron Paul political campaign (2014-03-21)
Does Erik Vorhees understand things better than Milton Friedman? (2014-03-06)
Calling Gmail technical support (yet another scam story) (2013-09-27)
The consequences of making political donations (2013-08-21)
IRS claims it can read your email without a warrant (2013-04-15)
Eye-opening observations about American poverty statistics (2013-04-02)
The days when you still had a chance to be heard (2013-03-01)
Why good intentions can fail as a starting point for organizing society (2013-01-03)
The inefficiency of government subsidized medical care (2012-12-15)
Obama’s reelection — are we on the path to Spain? (2012-11-09)
The Wealth of Statesmen (2012-10-19)
Are philosophy and religion dead? (2011-11-24)
Is there a better alternative to taxing the upper class? (2011-09-14)
A prayer for Japan? (2011-03-12)
Sam Harris on The Fact of Life (2011-02-24)
Religion, historical context and common sense (2011-02-13)
The unfortunate consequences of protective social laws in Spain (2011-02-12)
Inadvertent worldview distortion (2010-10-14)
Reactions to Paul Graham’s views of future trends. (2010-08-26)
Are we entitled to data security? (2010-06-24)
A timely quote, from 55 BC. (2010-04-03)
A simplified exercise in socialism (2009-09-16)
Timely quotes from Thomas Jefferson (2009-03-11)
Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality (2004-10-18)
Roger Ebert on Columbine (2004-07-23)