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What works in healthcare?

Short answer: almost nothing. I’m being flip about a very serious subject, but at the same time I am in fact serious. Modern medicine probably works a lot less well than you probably think it does. How could I say such a thing when you look at graphs like

The Long View 2006-11-20: Steyn, Tesla, and Option Two

Here is an interesting reflection on social democracy. In the United States, it is a relatively common political position on the Left to advocate for some kind of social democracy, with some people being confused, thinking this is a variety of socialism, or even communism. In history, social democracy has

Builders and Breakers book review

Builders and Breakers by Steve Light Kindle edition,40 pages Published by Candlewick Press (October 9, 2018) ISBN 978-0763698720 I received this book for free from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. This one was a sleeper hit in my house. I read it for bedtime once or twice when

Pop Kult Warlord Book Review

Pop Kult Warlord: Soda Pop Soldier Book 2 by Nick Cole Kindle edition, 318 pages Published November 4th, 2018 by Castalia House ASIN B07K6SRSLW A man with decisions to make. Choices that weigh heavily on him. Heavy is the brow that wears the crown, someone once said. I may be

The Long View 2006-11-16: Rising through Humiliation; House; Quiverfull; Einstein

Last month, I guessed that the House would swing Democratic, but the Senate would not quite. That looks pretty close, but I didn’t make any kind of fancy prediction with numerical probabilities. I just looked at 2006, which seemed similar, and asked myself what seemed different this time. There

Thrawn: Alliances Book Review

Thrawn: Alliances by Timothy Zahn Del Rey (2018) 350 pages ISBN 978-0-525-48048-8 This book was a breath of fresh air for me. Timothy Zahn has written something that feels like an old-school Star Wars adventure in the new Star Wars canon. The Star Wars novels written since Disney nuked the

The Long View 2006-11-13: TXT, Steyn, Spengler, Tridentine

It has genuinely been long enough that a terrorist attack that I have no personal stake in, like the Madrid bomadmbings of 2004, with 193 people killed and 2,000 injured, seems like it happened in another lifetime. At the time, I remember reading hot takes [which wasn’t a