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I had written a rather long post about the long-term effect of the coronavirus on New York City. But in light of the absolutely horrific pre...

If you don't like cars, where should you live? This sounds like a trick question. Most cities in the U.S. are heavily car-dependent, a...

Just a quick post about what a government can and can't control in fighting the virus. First imagine a country that has complete contr...

Enver Hoxha says it's fried rice time! Enver Hoxha says it's fried rice time! First let's gather our ingredients. ...

This is the galaxy brain version of my previous post. Imagine that the government gives a small tax break to people who obtain income from...

My previous post is superficially about Daylight Saving Time, but the bigger point is that there are times when universal, off-the-shelf sol...

Twice a year my Twitter feed is full of people complaining about Daylight Saving Time. Actually, most of them don't object to DST, they ...

In the Democratic presidential primary of 2008, Obama pursued a strategy of accumulating as many delegates as possible. Clinton racked up so...

One consequence of the rise of social media is the outrage cycle, in which (usually) brief but intense pressure is brought on someone due to...