In any negotiation, the one with power is the one who can walk away. If you can’t walk, you have no power and you won’t get what you want. I bring this up because a couple of billion people have entered relationships in which they have no power at all, and…

Business success: The old ideal of "work hard, follow the rules and prosper" is dead. If you want to make real money, you have to have an advantage that...

America took its fatal blow in 1913, one hundred years ago; it just hasn't hit the ground yet. This is a slow process, but it's actually fast compared to...

As I look back on my early work, I see too many cases of trying to accommodate hostile opponents… too much effort spent on making my arguments unassailable. And I see that it was wasted effort. It’s time to unchain ourselves from apologetics. It’s time to…

Why Some Juries Get It Wrong: I'm sure you've seen crazy jury verdicts and wondered how sane people could vote for them. This is probably why. If you put...

You may have heard that Silk Road – the truly free online market – was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.

Humanity stands about halfway between gorillas and gods. The big question is this: “Which will we incorporate into our lives?" God or gorilla things are...

I was recently involved in a day of meetings with small business owners in the American Midwest. It was both encouraging and sad at the same time.

The problem with most humans is not that they think too highly of themselves: it’s that they think too little of themselves. They exhibit what G.K. Chesterton called a “weird and horrible humility.” To put it bluntly, we’ve been trained to perpetually self…

Perhaps the most vehement intellectual foolishness of our time is the demand that no culture may be judged. According to this dogma, all cultures are equally valid and very certainly none can be judged as inferior to another. That’s not just hogwash, but…

In my town, the corporate throngs travel almost in unison every morning and every night, making their way from the manicured suburbs to the shiny central city and then back again. They’re not particularly bad people, you understand. In fact, many of them…

Once in a while in human affairs, things go right. Today we’ve issued a special report. I’ve been keeping notes on this subject for some time, but I wasn’t sure I’d ever use them. Over the past several weeks, however, so many pieces have come together, and…

Those of us who pursue positive change are very often frustrated. We see the necessity of change all too clearly, and we can explain how it should come about, but it never seems to happen. It’s a discouraging situation. The truth, however, is that change…

The pairing-up of young men and women has always been a difficult process. What has appeared recently, however, is a multi-media assault upon mating per se, and that’s new. This is something we need to see clearly, and so I’ll jump right in by telling you…

(Originally published in 2015) Not too many years back, warnings of Peak Oil circulated widely, and they made me consider something a good deal more dangerous: Peak Obedience. If that concept strikes you as odd, there’s a reason: We’ve all been living inside…

I was introduced to Ben Hecht, many years ago now, by my friend Paul Greenfield. Like most people of my generation I had never heard of him. He had been fairly famous some decades earlier, know early for his cynical and cutting criticisms, then as Hollywood’s…

For more than two years I wrote a free monthly newsletter called Individual Virtue. Recently I’ve received some interest in those articles, so I thought I’d republish some of them (with light editing). This is the first. Confidence and Courage All of us enjoy…

The Right Time Will Never Come Lots of good people are frustrated with the world, and I understand that only too well. They are, furthermore, eager for the world to improve, and I respect that a great deal. Their problem arises, however, right on the heels…

Inertia is a human frailty. Too often, we go along to get along. We conform. Because of this, those who claim authority can get most of us to do their bidding if it comes with a plausible justification and is only incremental. We get nickel-and-dimed to death…