Honest Common Sense

Did you hear birds a-singing, In the morning at half past five? Did you hear wasps a-flying, As they came, one by one, from their hive? ...

Continuing my current focus on economic matters, today I’ll discuss two subjects on which there is much confusion and often acrimony; the fr...

Just recently, I came across a proposal for “world democracy” and a “planetary social contract,” made by Fernando Alcoforado, a Brazilian pr...

(Neil’s Note: It’s very rare that I feel the need to elevate a comment I’ve made on someone else’s site to a full post. But this comment is ...

Business – honest business, that is – is beautiful. For it isn’t just being busy; it’s being busy with a purpose. And that purpose is to cre...

Another offering from the Darn-Poor Rhymer. Hat tips to Aristophanes for his comedy “The Frogs,” and to Murray Gell-Mann who found the word ...

Today, I’m going to write about philosophy. I’ll tell you how I interpret the ideas of the sages of the past, and I’ll outline my own views ...