In 2019, we had known for a cool century that governments are run by incompetent leaders, willing to frivolously demolish the lives of their own people, to protect their own status. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
The last four years have been weird, but it’s hard to know if it was out of the ordinary. For example, we’ve witnessed a series of fires around the world at food processing plants and industrial complexes. But because no organization keeps records on these kinds of incidents, we can’t tell if there’s an anti-human…
Personal injury attorneys who abuse the legal system regard lawsuits the way venture capitalists treat startups. Both expect 19 in 20 investments to fail. But among their portfolio of losers, there’s that one successful moonshot. Think of Peter Thiel’s 2004 investment in Facebook of $500,000 that turned into billions. One jackpot not only covers the…
The gym business has never been about keeping the regulars happy, but rather courting the indifferent. The Washington Post summed up the situation nicely in an article about gyms and New Year’s Resolutions: “It might seem like kind of a weird business model – a business that succeeds when its customers don’t set foot in…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed paperwork to run for president last week. He’s running as a Democrat, but the terms Democrat/Republican, Left/Right mean little today. What animates U.S. politics now is the ruling class vs. the people class. Take a glance at Kennedy’s announcement remarks: “My top priority will be to end the corrupt merger…
I recently finished one of the definitive works on World War I, a book called “A World Undone.” The book brings to life, says one promotional blurb, how the Great War crippled many of world’s mightiest empires, and “cracked the foundations of the world we live in today.” Through simple editing, you could replace the…