It has become clear from all polls that the key issue for voters in this midterm election is inflation. That’s a difficult issue for Democrats, so we have tried to make it something else: January 6, the Supreme Court, etc. The time has come to realize that all of that…

There’s an important article about climate change in the latest IEEE Spectrum. It’s only two pages long, but there is much to think about. It is high time to recognize the reality of what we’re fighting. The article points out that a reasonable estimate for the cost of the energy…

We’re not paying enough attention. This midterm election hides a real danger of Depression. We’re stumbling into exactly what happened in the 1930's. The Great Depression of the 1930’s occurred when the financial authorities of the day responded to a sudden downturn with the opposite of what was needed. A…

I’m tired of arguments over whether Republicans or Democrats are better managers of the economy. The situation for the midterms is starker than that. In this election cycle we are parallel to 2014, a mid-term election with an open Presidential election to follow. What did the Republican Party do with…

The public discussion of Biden’s student loan plan seems to be about some other country-certainly not this one. Much of the discussion takes the point of view that Biden’s plan is a wildly-expensive and unnecessary change, since post-secondary education is functioning the way it always has. …

This note is occasioned by John McWhorter’s piece in the NY Times, basically praising Clarence Thomas as a thinker who has been too easily dismissed. While I agree with Mr. McWhorter on some subjects, I think he is very wrong on this one. …

Today about half the United States electorate seems to think that the end of democracy would be great-they could just keep on winning. It’s not said enough: that’s a fallacy regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum. The end of democracy means the end of leverage. As history…

Monotheism amounts to an imperialistic assertion of primacy. That sounds like one of those wild-eyed slogans from the radical left or right. But in fact it is simple statement of what drives quite a lot of both domestic and international politics. Let’s start close to home. In both Britain and…

Schumer and Manchin seem finally to have reached agreement on meaningful climate action. If we can do that, the next step has got to be reforming the Supreme Court. This Court is responsible for even more than it gets blamed for. Roe v Wade is the tip of the iceberg…