The Dance of the Hippo

This is in response to a post at Brad DeLong's "Grasping Reality" blog, From ChatGPT back to clay & cuneiform: A start at ...

Wandering around the Web, I found an interesting observation in a discussion of climate change and the reluctance to accept the scientific c...

The previous post —the first post in what might be a series—gave an overview of what I think is important to understand about Social Securit...

Original image from By Social Security Administration - Social Security Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

  Part of a semi-regular series. The first part is here . Albrecht Dürer The Four Horsemen, from The Apocalypse via Wikimedia You've pr...

  Part of an occasional series Albert Goodwin, Apocalypse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocalypse-Albert_Goodwin.jpg You could s...

As negotiations between Ukraine and Russia maybe move past ultimatums, I've seen discussions of what a settlement might ultimately look ...