Can Self-Interest Save the World? The world is a naturally simple and beautiful place. Then we come along and screw it all up by thinking far too much about it. I was reminded of this truism recently when discussing Game Theory with my 13 year-old daughter. And if anything will remind you that you’re thinking […]
420 Lessons We Can Learn from Legalizing Weed If you’re wondering why I am a bit late publishing this week’s TRUTH: In 1000 Words or Less, allow me to apologize for my malfeasance. See, I fully intended to pen this column last night, on the eve of the 4/20 holiday when stoners from around the […]
How Citizens United Divided Citizens My daughter has recently been studying U.S. Supreme Court cases in her Civics class and asked me what I thought was the worst decision ever rendered by the nation’s highest court. There certainly have been some doozies. There’s the Plessy vs. Ferguson ruling that defined the notion of “separate but […]
The 34 Reasons We All Have to be Grateful For Last Thursday, I woke up and it was like Christmas morning with 34 beautifully-wrapped presents just waiting to be opened. That’s because Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg doled out Trump indictments like Santa Claus on an egg nog bender with 34 felony counts for falsifying […]
