In Praise of Earthquakes
Here is one big lie Californians tell ourselves: we hate earthquakes. The unspoken truth is that we love earthquakes, as well we should. Don’t give the weather all the credit. Earthquakes are another natural phenomenon that made California great. Earthquakes play as many roles here as our finest Hollywood actors. Quakes inspire us to dream, […]
Racism, Name-Calling and the 2020 Election. How Will CA Congressional Delegation Respond?
With blatantly racist tweets now spouting from the mouth of the President of the United States we have may reached a new low for insensitivity to the vast majority of Americans who find such rhetoric abhorrent. At a North Carolina rally just the other day, urged on by the president’s special ire aimed at Minnesota […]
In Defense of Houses
A critical component in the rise of market-oriented democracy in the modern era has been the dispersion of property ownership among middle-income households—not just in the United States but also in countries like Holland, Canada, and Australia, where it was closely linked with greater civil and economic freedom. In its early days, this dispersion was […]