Get Out Your Reparations Calculator

Thousands of aggrieved activists are headed to Washington, D.C., later this week for the “Millions for Reparations” march. The theme is: “They Owe Us.” “Us” means black Americans who allegedly endure lasting psychological and...

The Psychology of Anger and Revenge

Q:I have a friend, Mary, who was nearly sexually molested by a 30-year-old adult when she was about 15 years old (she convinced him to stop). She never told anyone about it until she shared her secret with me about 6 months ago. Mary is now 35 years old. The accused...

Red Tiger Rising

Washington cocktail-party conversations about China typically go something like this: A person from the China-as-a-peer-competitor school of thought says “I think China, with its growing economy, growing military, and young, nationalistic population, will only...

What or Who is the Market?

Every day, we hear something about markets. Your 6 o’clock news anchor might say, “The market had a bad day.” Last year, Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan talked about the market’s irrational exuberance. I guess now he’d say...

Bad Medicine

The one monumental fact that is being ignored in all the political schemes to bring down the cost of pharmaceutical drugs is that it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop one successful new medicine. No matter how cleverly the politicians try to shift those...

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