• The Cost of Happiness

    Different times during the year, Forbes and magazines like it cough up these things.  Lists designed to have us gawk and awe at the collective opulence of the richest bodies amongst us. This past week, Forbes released The Forbes 400, a “definitive list of wealth in America, profiling and ranking the country’s richest citizens by…

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  • In Apologia of Freedom

    Embassies are burning; an ambassador is dead; elite Marine units are being deployed to protect envoys; tear gas canisters are falling like rain droplets on belligerent and vociferous mobs; chants of “Obama, Obama—we are all Osama” pierce an already raucous Friday afternoon; and yet, this eerily seems a beginning. I welcome you to earth—where the…

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