If you think that graduate school will help you dig out of the hole of debt from your undergraduate degree, think again. And don't think...

December 18, 2021. As this seemingly endless pandemic drags on into a third year -- twenty months since March 2020 -- it is not a bad...

Buffalo a climate refuge? Maybe that's the economic development vision of Buffalo's mayor to re-populate a city losing residents to the...

Building on the literature of materialism and compulsive buying, de Graaf, Wann & Naylor (2005) coined the term “affluenza” to describe...

Winter is here in Wisconsin. Saturday morning, a brief but brutal storm of wet snow turned into a snow clearers nightmare, with 3-4...

First it was "SUV crashes into crowd" and then it was "Fox News Christmas tree catches fire." Instead of assigning responsibility to the...

In 2013, Matt Ridley offered this talk on the greening of the planet, and not despite but rather because of increasing economic...

A second late afternoon traipse through the bitter cold led to a quiet night, waiting for Jane and Dena to return from Portugal. About...

December 6, 2021. It takes a special kind of arrogance to claim that "I represent science." One would need to be an egomaniac or a fool...

Universities rely on alumnae for a significant part of their comparative advantage. Without outside funds, a lot of boutique, scholarship...

"Regrets, I've had a few, sang Frank Sinatra with "My Way". Unlike Frank, although I have had few regrets, I have had enough to mention....

A year ago I posted in an effort to explain the public narrative of the roots of division in America. You might want to first go back and...

This (see PDF, below) is simply nonsense. Bidinflation is not transitory nor structural. It is self-inflicted fiscal foolishness....

November 14, 2021. Just when you thought natural immunity could not be any more confusing, Tony Heller explains how China, the Red Cross,...

Tony Heller does it again, with a comprehensive rebuttal of an arrogant speech by film maker David Attenborough at the Glasgow COP26...

Watching Penn State host Michigan on a chilly day in State College, an even chillier day in Harrison. State struggling but hanging in...

These past eighteen months have produced an impressive range of disconcerting dreams, dreams that leave me groggy and often depressed...

November 5, 2021. Persona non grata at Yale, as MIT Cancels What Most Call Common Sense (excerpt follows): I am a professor at the...

Three countries with more than forty percent of the world's population -- China, India and Russia -- dod not attend the recently...

If you think life is difficult, challenging or endangered now, just look at the seventeenth century, the "general crisis of mankind."...