William M. Briggs

Before Jerry Pournelle began writing science fiction; before, that is, he teamed with Larry Niven to write the classic Lucifer's Hammer1, he was a political scientist. Pournelle was dissatisfied with…

It's Friday and time for something light. In 2006, Russia lost 732,000 people. Don't bother searching for them, because most of them were never born. Its neighbor Ukraine also misplaced…

Today's post is at Pajamas Media: The Dismal Economics of Utopia. This is first is a short series. I thought it would be fun to show how the utopian ideas…

Obamacare. Thank you, sir! May I have another! $800 billion "stimulus" spending. Thank you, sir! May I have another! Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act; Wise Latinas on the bench; SCHIP…