Sometimes travel can show you how easy things can be.

Sometimes travel can show you how easy things can be.

People want jobs rather than handouts. People have their pride. The problem is that machines are slowly but relentlessly getting better at many of the tasks that make up jobs. And neither of the two big American political parties seems to know what to do.

Some people don’t want to live by the rules of the State, and would perhaps prefer that the government didn’t exist.

Why do we choose to punish people by putting them in prison, at great expense to the taxpayer?

There are many advantages to being rich, and demonstrating philanthropy is one of them.

Given the danger from Covid and especially the Delta variant, one wonders about the decisions of some of the Republican governors.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan is tragic. For Afghanis, anyway. But will America learn?

The U.S. military has often been used to protect commercial interests rather than protect life.

Many of us are concerned about protecting the environment. As long as it doesn’t prevent us doing what we want to do.

Can America learn from The World Happiness Report? It seems we tend to focus on the wrong things.

We’re Learning the Wrong Lessons From the World’s Happiest Countries is an interesting article on this subject.