In 1971 Yale professor Martin Shubik invented a game that highlighted one of the most powerful psychological traps. He auctioned off a dollar bill to students with simple rules…highest bidder wins. But there was a twist that proved just how irrational humans can be. Here’s how it worked: The highest bidder gets the dollar, but […]
What Does The First Amendment Say About Free Speech
The First Amendment states, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech.” This protects the right to express opinions and ideas without government interference but is not absolute; certain types of speech, such as those inciting violence or constituting defamation, are not protected. The Supreme Court interprets the scope of this protection and […]
So You Murdered Charlie Kirk
Congratulations morons. You’ve started something that isn’t going to end well for anyone. As to be expected with any high profile public figure, the media was instantaneously rushing to the airwaves to condone, with glee in their eyes, they pronounce with certainty that it was Charlie’s fault for being murdered. Just as it was Iryna […]
The Crime Problem
In recent years, it’s been known that there is a severe crime problem in the US. It’s also been know for just as long that a majority of the problems stem from political leaders in all forms of government, from the bottom city government to the top government in the White House. It’s been a […]
The Limits To Growth
Published 1972 – The message of this book still holds today. The earth’s interlocking resources – the global system of nature in which we all live – probably cannot support present rates of economic and population growth much beyond the year 2100, if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an […]