If you believe the media hype, a storm awaits America. The US government will have to fight off neo-Nazi religious fanatics, massive climate change, financial armageddon, mass...
About Robert E. Wright
The Historian
Censoring Edward Atkinson, the 19th century’s Elon Musk
As Americans continue to reel from years of dismisinfoganda, government censorship and government-inspired, if not directed, private censorship, they would do well to recall...
The Professor
Tony Soprano’s critique of identity politics
Tony Soprano, the eponymous fictional antihero of HBO’s iconic series about organised crime syndicates in northern New Jersey, tends to evoke images of cigars, strip clubs and...
The Professor
The property instinct and the utter futility of socialism
If you are like me, you regularly interact with people who remain unphased by America’s recent giant strides towards authoritarian socialism, of an economy run largely by...
The Professor
Stakeholders v stockholders
The notion that stakeholders and stockholders battle for control of major business corporations is an oversimplification of a much more complex reality involving managers,...
The Professor
What will America’s 250th birthday look like?
If you are reading this, congratulations on surviving the latest Independence Day festivities, which our society somewhat arbitrarily celebrates on 4 July. Independence Day 2026...