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How inequality is the vampire of our lives
On one hand, the ever-increasing lifespan of our species is perhaps the single greatest testament to the rapid advances and innovations of the last two centuries of human existence. On the other hand,...
View ArticleThe overpopulation fallacy
As I read the new Naomi Klein book on climate change (a topic I know woefully little about), it struck me that Klein dismisses the popular argument of overpopulation as part of the world’s climate...
View ArticleHold up! Marriage and fertility are still related
Robert VerBruggen has a thought-provoking post at RealClearPolicy today about the relationship between marriage and fertility internationally, or at least in large economies (it’s fairly rare to see...
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Loan defaults and gentrification in DC
Last Sunday, the Washington Post featured a cover story on loan default and delinquency for buildings with affordable housing units across the district. The typical delinquent loan — among a list of 43...
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Ranking and reviewing fantasy series
I’ve meant to write some recommendations on fantasy series for awhile and have finally gotten around to it. I’ve organized them into tiers. There are certainly a ton of fantasy series that fall into...
View ArticleAbout that demographic shift to a multiracial future…
The newest entrant in the cottage industry of books predicting our demographic future is Diversity Explosion by William Frey (no relation, I think, to Lord Walder Frey of The Twins). While I have yet...
View ArticleThe casino dilemma
Casinos are attractive as an economic development project because they have improved the economic situations of certain areas in the past – Las Vegas and Atlantic City are obvious, and many American...
View ArticleVisualizing Social Security’s role in lifting millions out of poverty
Social Security is by far the most effective antipoverty program in the history of the United States. In addition to keeping millions of seniors out of poverty, the program also helps children and...
View ArticleInventing race
I’ll just come out and say it: Theodore Allen’s The Invention of the White Race is the best work of history and critical race theory I’ve ever read. It cleared up a great deal of fuzziness I had around...
View ArticleGrandma on the Barricades
Every day, headlines like “What to do when your financial adviser retires” or “How retiring abroad could affect your long-term-care insurance” grace the retirement planning pages of the New York Times....
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