I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, January 7.
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Is Washington tacitly operating under a new monetary theory?
In 2002 when soon-to-be-dismissed U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill warned then Vice President Dick Cheney that the Bush administrati...
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Do we have the wrong model of human nature?
Are we wrong to believe that competitiveness must and always will be the central animating principle of human action? Media studies scholar ...
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Taking a short break - no post this week
I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, December 17.
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Human well-being, economic growth and so-called decoupling
Some people claim that certain humans—called breatharians —can live on air alone. Others claim we can have economic growth without increasi...
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Be kind, it's all connected
In a conversation over the holiday I posited to a friend that the modern worldview which guides human action practically worldwide has all ...
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Agriculture and climate change: Is farming really a moveable feast?
There is a notion afoot that our agricultural production can simply migrate toward the poles in the face of climate change as areas in lowe...
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Taking a short break - no post this week
I'm taking a short break from posting this week. I expect to post again on Sunday, November 19.
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Look at the big picture, avoid groupthink, remember history
A friend of mine recently outlined as follows his method for thinking about important issues: Look at the big picture, avoid groupthink, an...
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Devolution everywhere: Spain, Italy, Britain and the problems of complexity
The narrative about Catalan independence is that two major cities, Madrid and Barcelona, are competing for power, and one has decided that t...
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An ecological view of Trump's trade war
Whether you regard President Donald Trump's rejection of America's trade agreements as a good thing or a bad thing, few people under...
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Taking a short break - no post this week
An exceptionally heavy workload has forced me to take a short break from posting. I expect to post again on Sunday, October 22.
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The Italian experiment and the truth about government debt
Money is a slippery concept. Today we think of it as paper certificates and coins. But actually, anything that is generally accepted in trad...
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Puerto Rico: When the electricity stops
When the electricity stops in modern civilization, pretty much everything else stops. Not even gasoline-powered vehicles can get far before ...
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The solar panel imports case and the future of self-sufficiency
Last week the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that the American solar panel industry had been harmed by cheap imports thoug...
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The high cost of an easy-care, low-maintenance world
I may be a member of an endangered species. I prefer a perfect crease in a pair of pants resulting from the use of an actual iron rather tha...
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The storms are only going to get worse
We are now used to hearing about once-in-a-1,000-year floods . The fact that we are used to hearing about them tells us that they will no lo...
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In media res: Houston, Harvey and the catastrophe of climate change
"In media res" is Latin for "in the middle of things." Frequently, it refers to the literary device of plunging readers...
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Arctic riches: A most insane discussion
As climate change rips away the icy armor of the Arctic, nations surrounding the North Pole and companies eager to exploit the area's mi...
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Moving to Washington, DC -- Taking a five-week hiatus
I am now in the process of moving to Washington, DC. Making that move while staying on top of my ongoing consulting and commercial freelance...
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Pi's tiger and the Anthropocene
Science studies scholar Bruno Latour is fond of the film "Life of Pi" for the metaphor it provides for our current predicament. T...
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