The Social Contract Between the Government and its Domain
A government rules over territory and the people in it by enforcing laws over lives and commerce. Her citizens expect their government to behave a certain way based on the culture. In America, the culture implies that a government should defend freedom and individual...
Social Contracts and the Polarization of America
Waving at your neighbor as you go past them, a gas clerk letting you use the restroom on a road trip, and a teacher comforting a young child crying in the hallway are all little things that you don’t think of but are proof of a very important principle. Imagine making...
The Efficient Safety Net: Better System, Same Budget
In engineering, someone will ask how you can save money and improve a system. This seems weird because generally improvements cost money, so how are you supposed to make things better for less money. Generally, the answer is efficiency. You either rearrange the system...
The New American Destiny
3 Flags - Jasper Johns (1958) Our current debate is focused around inequality, moneyed interests, health care, the power of corporations, debt, education, foreign policy, immigration and the cost of living. However, I argue that these address relatively...
American History
History Part This is a quick summary of the history that informed my understanding of past American problems when I was writing the New American Destiny. Most of the information came from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ , but alot of supplementary information and...
Incentives
A good government will incentivize activities that produce a positive effect and discourage activities that produce harmful outcomes. For instance the government gives preferential tax treatment to retirement account contributions, but heavily taxes alcohol and...
