A few days ago, I listened to Russ Roberts’s EconTalk interview of cardiologist Eric Topol on the health issues involved with aging. For some reason, I’m getting increasingly interested in that issue. An interesting issue comes up at about 36:00 point. Topol states: We should be using better nanoparticles and keeping that mRNA from…
Vice President Vance speaks at Alta Refrigeration in Peachtree City, Ga., on Thursday to tout the Trump administration’s sweeping domestic policy agenda signed into law in July. Stephen Fowler/NPR hide caption toggle caption Stephen Fowler/NPR PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — Vice President Vance appeared in Georgia Thursday, promoting tax cuts included in President Trump’s sweeping domestic…
By Theodoros Apostolos Koutsoumpas As 2024 completes its circle around the Sun, I cannot help but note it was a year full of conflicts: the Russian invasion of Ukraine persisted, Israel escalated dramatically its operations against the Palestinians, the Hezbollah and Iran whereas in Syria, Assad’s regime collapsed after half a century of political dominance….
April 14, 2025 “You are democracy defenders. You are patriots. Dissent is patriotic.” – Rep Ayanna Pressley at the April 5 Hands Off Rally. Photo of a large ACLU red sign that says “Dissent is Patriotic.” Taken by the author on April 5, 2025, at the Hands Off! rally in Boston. I started to write…
Yves here. The fact that antidepressants loom so large in our collective discourse says that there is something wrong with society. That is not to say that a lot of people do not benefit from them. But even before how people are being treated, look at some raw figures from Statista: These results are significantly…
Corporal punishment refers most frequently to hitting children but can refer to any punishments inflicted by parents, caregivers or teachers which are intended to cause some degree of discomfort. It can happen in the home or in more public settings like the school classroom. But wherever it happens, this sort of punishment has wide-ranging effects,…
Sherry Oak Cask Series. (BOWMORE) In a documentary on Raf Simons’ debut at Dior, the then newly-appointed creative director consistently peppers one word throughout the 89-minute runtime: sublime. It’s been over a decade and it strangely haunts me to this day. Maybe it’s a lack of vocabulary (man’s a designer, not a wordsmith), but it’s still an…
Today we present a guest post written by Matías Scaglione of the data science and economic consulting firm Motio Research. On August 7, 2025, Stephen Moore, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, presented monthly household income figures at the White House alongside President Trump (video; charts). Moore described the data as “never seen before,” claimed…
Jon Wiener: From The Nation Magazine, this is Start Making Sense. I’m Jon Wiener. Later in the show: It’s time to take a step back from the daily barrage of bad news to look at the big picture of the strategy Trump has been following: David Cole will explain how he’s exploited the power of…
By Stefanos Michelakakis and Alexandros Sainidis As it is New Year’s Eve and everyone is reading to brainstorm their New Year’s resolutions and think back about what happened this year, we decided to map out some developments in 2024 and try to think how they will continue to evolve in 2025. 🪂 If you want…