Adumbration

This side project was a six part book club discussion of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759), which besides the Wealth of Nations (1776) is perhaps the most well known writings of 18th century economist Adam Smith (1723-1790) Theory of Moral Senti… more »

The subject matter for this episode holds my interest, but the discussion ended with a stark and bleak dystopian vision that I originally had no interest in writing about (which writing here shows I changed my mind about that).  A couple interesting his… more »

If you had reason to believe that someone would bail you out if your investments turned bad and you ended up over your head, would you be more or less prudent in the choice of those investments?  These three episodes provide different perspectives to th… more »

Here's a related article from 2001 Scientific American that has been floating around the office recently. Today I finally took the time to read it, and find the content quite similar to the 2004 article referenced below (flood is inevitable, wetlands r… more »

The desire for control of nation states is a reasonable terrorist motivation;  power lust has motivated so many criminals to government in the past. more »