To toil gives man purpose. His eyes glisten with fervor at the thought of work and career. Because he is distracted. Because he is caged. A caged man is unencumbered; he has his walls and his routine to keep him company. To keep him happy. To keep him sane. The hamster, too, is happy. His […]
The first ape to use a tool — a stick or bone, perhaps — used it, no doubt, to kill or maim his fellow ape. We are no more civilized today than he. The history lesson to be learned from the rise of Hitler is not that he was sublimely evil in a way no […]
A whimsical children’s tale to help explain the wonders and audacious logic of tariffs. == Tank Thompson, wild-eyed and grinning, cut off his own ear at recess. Nobody knew why. Maybe it was a dare no one heard … or just a storm inside him finally breaking loose. Blood slicked his neck. He held the […]
