Negative Space: Sowellian
- Bill Gates’s education
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If we gave every child Bill Gates’s education, we’d have to pop the higher education bubble. But it would usher in a new age of prosperity that makes everyone richer.
- How to make a meme on the iPad or iPhone
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Ray, when someone asks you if you can make a meme, you say yes! You can do it with Inkpad.
- Intellectuals and Society
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Thomas Sowell details the verbal virtuosity by which the left tries to avoid empirical evidence.
- Intellectuals waive reality
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The left keeps saying strong words and boots on the ground will mean more terrorists. But this is something that can be tested against the real world, and the reality appears to be extremely different.
- Is it better to tax incomes or purchases?
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Is it better in a democratic republic for the national government to tax incomes, with an income tax, or to tax purchases, with a sales tax?
- Just a jump to the Left
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The cry of the beltway is that conservatives should always jump to the left in the dance of government. No matter how often they’re proved wrong. It’s like they’re in a time warp, always repeating the same failed policies.
- My job fell in the (oil) well
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Through steel tariffs, we killed tens of thousands of jobs in industries that use steel by raising the cost of steel in the United States. Now Irwin M. Stelzer wants to do the same to industries that use oil. That is, all of them. Everyone uses energy.