After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years at…
Author: Vassar Bushmills
Delba Wintrop’s “Aristotle: Democracy and Political Science: From Claremont Review of Books
(This is an essay by Paul Ludwig in the Claremont Institute’s Review of Books Spring 2020, entitled “Public Spiritedness”. about Delba Wintrop’s posthumously published Aristotle: Democracy and…
“Want-to”: A History Lesson on Stretching Logic Too Far
As you have noticed, especially on Twitter and other social media, a lot of conservatives of every age lead with their biases to come to…
The Intellectual yet Idiot, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(I want to introduce a singular mind to our readers, for he is a genuine scholar, yet shares the views I’ve written about for many…
The Science Inside the Math of Science
Sometimes simple events can help one see things that seem complicated but aren’t. Last night my door bell rang just before dark. Since my wife…
Herd immunity and the Religion of Math and Science
Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when…