Panic gathers, but government will protect us
The top-down arrangement of regulations, permissions, and enforcement has actual consequences for a lot of people. We can change this regime incrementally, just as it developed incrementally.
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Leadership during a pandemic
These tools of social pressure are the opposite of leadership. Leaders do not pressure, denounce, and coerce. Leaders open the way.
Mandatory shutdown: a politician’s calculus
We ran out of money after the bailouts. Too bad this mandatory shutdown didn’t work for you.
Self-management during a pandemic
If we stopped being so afraid, we would not need to turn to authorities who want to manage, administer, and control us.
Proposals for public action coupled with faulty logic
Well-constructed thought experiments help us understand a problem. They do not help us predict, either what will happen, or what would have happened.
Foreign interference in American politics: why intelligence agencies want us on alert
They are the shepherds that protect us from the Muscovite wolves. They can use the money to build stronger fences around us.
The Jeffersonian 