Imagine seeing four doctors in three years and leaving every appointment with the same answer: your labs look “fine,” you’re probably just stressed, get more sleep. It wasn’t until she collapsed at work that anyone ordered the right test. She was 44. Her heart disease had been progressing for years, hiding in plain sight because […]

Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative demands that we act only on principles that could hold as universal law. Apply that test to free-riding, and the conclusion is immediate. If everyone refused to produce and simply claimed a share of what others created, there would be nothing left to claim. Therefore, the maxim “I may consume without […]

Dolly Parton was not, as I always think of her, an Aquarius. She was technically a Capricorn, as befits her indefatigable work ethic and prodigious output. She was born in the Great Smoky Mountains, into the utterly vanished world that predated universal electrification, on Jan. 19, 1946, one day before Aquarius season officially begins. Whenever […]

For over a decade, the U.S. government was a crypto whale. Thanks to dark-web busts and asset forfeitures, Washington quietly built a large digital war chest. The feds did not buy it on purpose. They just seized it, stored it, and auctioned it off for cash. But that era is over. The United States has […]