Fortuna and the Free Market
“And thus does Fortune’s wheel turn treacherouslyAnd out of happiness bring men to sorrow.”~ Geoffrey Chaucer Imagine you and another person are standing around a roulette wheel at a high-end casino....
View ArticleThe Quartzsite Affair
When a small town reporter was removed from a public meeting and its mayor replaced by the chief of police, Quartzsite, Arizona showed how quickly democracy can devolve into dictatorship. On the...
View ArticleOn Culture and Law
How can we claim to live in a free society, if our only choice is between conformity and punishment? In a truly free society, culture, not law, should be the proper vehicle for changing behavior. It’s...
View ArticleUnfree Markets and the Diminishing of Choice
Over the past several decades, major cities across the country have introduced market-strangling regulation designed to protect certain industries from competition, resulting in a net loss for...
View ArticleA Nation of Wimps
In a harsh world we can either become tolerant by not shying away from pain and disappointment, or we can shelter ourselves and be unable to cope when those challenges rear their ugly head. In a...
View ArticleRemembering 9/11 Two Decades Later
I remember September 11, 2001 as a tragedy, but for more than just what was lost on that day. It was a tragedy for all we have lost since that day. Twenty years ago, at around 8am in the Chicago...
View ArticleCarman Hall: Left in the Past
Matt Williamson, a student at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, put together this short video on Carman Hall for a class project. He read my reminisces, and interviewed me. The final result...
View ArticleNewsweek Goes Off the Rails
Hyperbolic headlines are not exclusive to news about Donald Trump–even local elections get the clickbait treatment. Over the years, I’ve written many, many articles about bias, sloppy reporting, and...
View ArticleNikki Haley Gets an ‘F’ in History
Can the fumbling Republican presidential hopeful get anything right about our nation’s history? Earlier this week, former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley told Fox News viewers...
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