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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems....more

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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more...more

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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting di...more

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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

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There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of...more

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The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consume...more

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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

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Sheep farming is heavily subsidized in Great Britain. Without the subsidies, the green grazing in the valley of the River Exe would be gone. The hands...more

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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry;...more

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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.