Every Sport Needs Its Temple, Its Cathedral.

When You Lose Your Job, The Unemployment Rate Isn't Four Percent, It's 100 Percent.

Iraq May Still Have A Decent Outcome...but Even If It Becomes Switzerland, We Overpaid For It.

The Arab World Had A Big Problem Of Frankly Venal Elites. That Is Why These Revolutions Happen, Because People Didn't Think The Opportunities Were Being Shared Fairly.

What Is Al Qaeda? It's An Open Source Religious Political Movement That Works Off The Global Supply Chain.

So What Am I? I Guess I Would Call Myself A Sober Optimist...if You Are Not Sober About The Scale Of The Challenge, Then You Are Not Paying Attention. But If You Are Not An Optimist, You Have No Chance Of Generating The Kind Of Mass Movement Needed To Achieve The Needed Scale.