Predicting Nothing

From American Thinker, Anthropogenic Global Warming and the Scientific Method by Betsy Gorisch excerpts: Science is about ruling things out. Any good scientific hypothesis will make predictions about the natural world — ideally, it will predict at least one...

All Inequality is not Equal

From my article in American Thinker, Everything that Counts” excerpt: While Piketty reviews a history of inequality, we should realize that the inequality of the feudal society of the middle ages, where force kept the poor in a lifetime of poverty, is vastly...

The Hands that Prosper

From my article in American Thinker, Everything that Counts” excerpt: When Piketty suggests that we tax the wealth of the richest, exactly what does he think will happen to it?  The government will spend it – but on what?  Does he think that some politically motivated...

Inequality vs Mobility

From my article in American Thinker, Everything that Counts: Vast inequalities may harbor the potential for social unrest, but that is muted by social mobility.  Oprah and Andre Young (Dr. Dre) may have been born in poverty, but that has not kept them from rising to...

Detroit’s Suicide

There are many who blame the woes of Detroit on the decline in the auto industry, but the auto industry did not decline- it just moved.  Paul Krugman passes the decline off to the normal creative destruction of capitalist progress.  Bullshit, again.  A small...

The Tools of Capitalism

George Gilder in The New Edition of Wealth and Poverty made an interesting observation that capital is the tool of capitalism like books are the tools of the intellectuals and academics.  This analogy led me to my article in American Thinker Craftsmen of Capital...