I have been reading The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs.
It was published in 1969 which means I have been walking around blindly for the past 37 years not noticing it. I don’t know how that is possible. So many of my interests intersect in this single thin book, the history of agriculture, the development [...]

In honor of Donald Rumsfeld’s resignation, quotations from Rumsfeld’s Rules

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.
If a prospective presidential approach can’t be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn’t been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won’t [...]