Physicist at Large

  My latest opinion piece has been published in Discourse Magazine. It's titled "'Studies Have Shown' Is Not Enough."...

 After spending the majority of the book exploring how the Bible "flips the script" on the cycle of violence and scapegoating, tra...

 A while back I tried reading Rene Girard's Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World and gave up. Now I'm attempting his lat...

There's a lot of idealism in the later chapters of Matthew Desmond's  Poverty, By America . "Why don't we just get people t...

 I'm reading Poverty by America , a book by Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond on the systematic factors that undergird the persisten...

Hirschman makes the point that the Median Voter Theorem (all parties compete for the median voter and hence wind up nearly indistinguishable...

A few interesting observations: 1) Hirschman notes that lazy quasi-monopolies with public subsidies might like it when dissatisfied users ex...