Joel E Lewis

A historical parallel to the current level of division and outrage over health care: “To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both laws passed by similar majorities in Congress; the Civil Rights Act received [...]

The Japanese would have a a very different take on the story of the big bad wolf.  Between tsunami’s, typhoons, and earthquakes, natural disaster’s regularly destroyed towns.  Homes weren’t built to withstand anything hurled at them – they were built to work day in and day out, and to be rebuilt quickly after a disaster.  [...]

I recently stumbled across an illuminating anecdote about regulation, politics, and strange bedfellows. Also, an interview with the popularizer of the idea. It strikes me that these sort of sort of stories are very common, and that the media plays right into the deceivers hands. The mass media usually just reports the surface impacts of [...]