Recently, I published a lengthy blog responding to Congressman Chris Murphy, a blog in which I took the position that the national health insurance reform legislation was flawed because it simultaneously increased the
The title of this blog is meant to provoke thinking about a fundamental dilemma that elected officials in any democracy face: when serving the public broadly means that jobs of a small number
The recent tragic suicide of Dave Duerson, a great professional football player, who made a conscious decision to end his life in a way that enabled his brain to be donated to Boston
In the March 5-11 issue of [https://www.economist.com/node/18281764]The Economist [https://www.economist.com/node/18281764], there was an article entitled “The Perils of Property.” [https://www.economist.com/
Recently, I re-read Michael Lewis’ great book Moneyball, which, on the surface, is a book about baseball, and, particularly about Billy Beane, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Lewis, who wrote books
Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, and a renowned journalist from the early 20th century, once said that “it is difficult to get someone to understand something when the continuation of his