Past Essays
Here are the essays we have linked to in the past:
How American Health Care Killed My FatherAn excellent essay on American health care system
Why New Novelists Are Kinda Old
Why moderate Muslims don’t matter
When The Terror Began
Victor Davis Hanson goes to the seashore
Untitled
Understanding Crude Oil Prices
Turkey fears Kurds, not Armenians
Tsunami and Theodicy
Toxic Equity Trading Order Flow on Wall Street
Towards a Grand Strategy
The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist
The Truth About Septic Systems
The Sky Is Falling
The Rule of Law without the State
The Roving Cavaliers of Credit
The rise of the “starchitect”
The Report on the Evolution of the Family in Europe in 2007
The Reclamation of Skid Row
The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates
The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
The Prehistoric Origins of European Economic Integration
the pomocons, Freddie, and god
The Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Problem
The Paradox of ‘Simplicity’
The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World
THE MUNICH AGREEMENT
The Mowing of a Field
The Misesian explanation of the bank crisis
The Man Who Loved Not Wisely But At Least Twice
The Low Fertility Trap Hypothesis
The Lie That Will Kill Hedge Funds
The Last Samurai and Europe’s First Suicide
The Israel defense forces in the Second Lebanon War: Why the poor performance?
The Hive and the Town
The German Hyperinflation, 1923
The Firefight of March 24, 2007
The Evolution of an Investor
The English Are Chased Out
The End
The Empire of Lies
The Economics of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Day We Killed John Lennon
The dark side of Dubai
The Dark Art of Interrogation
The Crisis of Authority
The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep
The Centenarian: Arthur Warner McNair
The Body
The Blow-Up Artist
The Bell Curve
The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris
The Aesthetic of Despair
That Terrible Power
Terminated
Spanking the Economist
Six Degrees of Separation
Seeking Words of Balm
Rules of Engagement
ROUND 2 IN LEBANON
Robert Kennedy’s 1948 Reports from Palestine
Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
Putin for president … of the United States
Politics and the English Language
Pearls Before Breakfast
Orwell’s “Catalonia” revisited
On lying in bed
On Forgetting the Obvious
National extinction and natural law
My Personal Credit Crisis
My First Lesson in Motherhood
Mortgage Origination Channels for UberNerds
Mille Collines
Military-Industrial Complex Speech
Lunch Today
Live Not By Lies
Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
Letters to Malcolm and the trouble with Narnia: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their 1949 crisis
Lessons of Boston’s Big Dig
Learning Difficulties
Joseph Cassano: the man with the trillion-dollar price on his head
Introduction to THE BOOK OF JOB
I don’t know if the ending is sad or happy.
How to Take Down the Power Grid
How to Clean Carpet
Housing 2007: Preliminary Mid-Year Update
Hauling Feed
Happy Birthday Abe, Pass the Blood.
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Getting Away With Murder?
Gambling, economic growth and imagination
Full Circle
From Baku to Russian-Occupied Georgia
Foreign Aid Goes Military!
Fermenting the Food Supply
Economy: A question of Value
Economic Geneva
Don’t Talk to the Police
Dominoes
Diagnosing Lear
Demographic Policy in Russia: From Reflection to Action
Democracy as a historical phenomenon
Death & Politics
David Einhorn’s Speech on the Rating Agencies
Cooper Union Address
Considering the Invasion of the South
Comfort the comfortless. . .
Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks
Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?
China’s Way Forward
China’s Gruesome Organ Harvest
Bringing Down Bear Stearns
Bouncing In The Wool Sack
Berkshire Hathaway’s 2008 Annual Report
Berkeley Marines Protest
Bear Death Watch: Update and Nightmare Scenarios
Battle Company Is Out There
Barely veiled menace
Baghdad: City of walls
Bad Night, Bad Day
Andy Olmsted
Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess
A World Split Apart
A Tale of Two Depressions
A Prologue: My Story
A Prediction
A Nosedive Into the Desert
A failure in generalship
A County Boy Can Survive, But His Culture May Not
‘We’re At Our Breaking Point’