The Well Run Dry

For the last three months, the main focus of the posts on this blog has been the psychological examination of the public American persona....

As I have watched the unfolding events in Greece over the last several weeks, I've had a strong sense of deja vu .  Consider the traject...

I'm a bit tied up with an ongoing research project, so here's another repost from way back.  I think it's particularly relevant ...

  Here's a repost of an essay I wrote back in 2010.  It's just as relevant today , in my opinion.  The educational choices described...

Update - 9 March 2020: This post should be taken with a grain of salt.  I wrote it during a time in which most of the West was being flo...

This past week, a co-worker and I were discussing the sorry state of world affairs. He had mentioned to me the fact that members of wealth...

I'll begin this post with yet another metaphor. The behavior of nearly all physical systems can be modeled by systems of differe...