Power is corrupting, period
There are no exceptions
The course was POD (Problems of Democracy). The teacher was exasperated. I was confused. Eleven years of public school didn’t explain the philosophy of the US government and now that the different branches, levels, parties, and coalitions were diagramed before me, the system seemed too complex to function. The problem was, the teacher was an adult and I wasn’t.
Jevons Paradox
What the nineteenth century can teach us about fuel efficiency.
In 1865, the most prolific economic mind on the planet was occupied with coal. More specifically, William Jevons was trying to understand why the consumption of coal in England continued to increase despite ever more efficient steam engines. What became known as the Jevons Paradox explains why increases in efficiency result in higher total consumption. The news has yet to reach Washington.
Can you support Ron Paul?
What do you value more, freedom or empire?
The Ron Paul candidacy has become a conservative values litmus test for me. On one side are the Ron Paul supporters, the happy throngs that see a man articulating the failures of the government that has been running their country (and lives) for decades. On the other side is the puzzled Republican establishment that can’t see how anyone would want to walk away from a foreign policy that had been successful since the cold war began.