Extra Thoughts

An army of tent makers by  Lydia McGrew (Originally published at What's Wrong With the World. Link to original post at ...

Time for an economics post, as some slight attempted atonement for my neglect of my personal blog. (I have to some degree kept up posting du...

Call me simple-minded if you will, but I think this is a brilliant video: I have listened with some frustration and some puzzlement to f...

A persistent problem that I see in criticisms of "capitalism" is the unclarity in the use of that term, which in turn seems to be ...

Inspired by a good post by my W4 colleague Jeffrey S. on the minimum wage, I've been thinking a bit lately about anti-free-market appro...

Hunter Baker makes a good point here , describing a woman he saw at Hardee's: With great concentration and methodical effort, she scr...

As a fair number of people know who don't happen to live in my own town (because people who live in my own town never know what I'm ...

Over on What's Wrong with the World, we've had another thread about the bailout. I've come out firmly on the side of government...

I tried really hard to think of something profound to say about Pentecost, today being that feast. But nothing came to mind. So rather than ...