I had already completed 16 years of schooling when I took a class to prepare for entrance exams to law school (I decided not to go). First order of business for nailing the exam: the study of logic. My mind was absolutely blown. I was stunned to discover that there are rules for thinking...

It might at first seem to be a strange paradox. The stock market has reached a new and rocking high. Hiring seems to be on pace. Unemployment is low. New hirings are up. Corporate earnings are solid. New technologies are coming at us so hard – startup capital has dramatically shifted to...

You really have to hand it to the marketing team of Atomic Blonde, the smash hit thriller starring the mighty and immensely talented Charlize Theron. I can just imagine the way it must have gone. Production: “This film is a serious piece of political historiography. It’s about remembering...

To be sure, the question in this article’s title is entirely rhetorical, because the regulators surely don’t know what they are doing. Certainly no one active in the blockchain industry knows precisely what the SEC is doing. That is being debated all over the world right now.  This...

As the movie started and the plane took off into the air, the gentleman next to me pulled out a paper bag. It was McDonald’s from one of many locations in the Chicago airport. There are always long lines in front of each. In the bag was a serving of hash browns and an egg McMuffin...

Absolutely amazing. Even tragic. The Republicans railed against the proven failure that is Obamacare for years and voted at least half a dozen times to repeal it. It was the most important issue of the entire 2016 election. Then the GOP gained control – House, Senate, Presidency – and...

FEE has dug deep in its archive to discover the most interesting book from 1932: A Practical Program for America. It’s so revealing of where we’ve been and how far we’ve come. It’s a book purporting to provide a practical plan for dealing with the depression, which...

Not everyone who goes around celebrating the achievements of The West and decrying its destruction is a true friend of freedom. We’ve known this since at least a century ago, when the acclaimed German historian Oswald Spengler wrote his magisterial tome The Decline of the West (1919). The...

I constantly get the question: why do we need this blockchain thing anyway? Here is why. Every society with a vibrant commercial life exalts private property as an institution. The entrenchment of this institution occurs in three stages. All three are essential. The first stage is to...

It was the World Series. Then Brexit. Then the US presidential election. Then the Super Bowl. But of all the shocking upsets that have rocked my world, the Great Office Pizza Contest of 2017 is the one that stands out the most. Of the two great pizzerias in Atlanta – Antico’s and...