Why refinancing doesn’t happen
This NYT piece went on about why those mean banks aren’t refinancing many […]
Overthrowing the tyrant, e-mail
The Internet would give Karl Marx pause. On the one hand, it obliterates […]
A radical idea for healthcare
I dumped my subscription to The Atlantic earlier this year, fed up with […]
Shattered Shaken and Stirred
Major trauma in the form of a crippling car accident struck my friends […]
More on the Successful Societies Scale
This post, are we better off without religion? delves more deeply into Gregory […]
Washtenaw jail diary part 5: Feed me!
The latest installation of the Jail Diary finds our anti-hero hungering.
Stoopers, Reality TV and Christmas: things I’m reading
The Atlantic offers short stories for $3.99 a pop on Kindle. That’s less […]
Is religion killing the U.S. economy?
On Monday, I appeared on public radio’s Word of Mouth program to talk […]
Freelance, or employee?
Are freelancers in fact employees? John Sisson, a freelance writer based in Massachusetts, […]
Algorithmic journalism
It’s all about the math these days, words that many journalists don’t want […]