FIRST PRINCIPLES--REDUX

Ideas rooted in truth can be build upon, like the gospel and great societies.

Sunday, August 16, 2015

The Story We Tell Ourselves

I work out at a gym that tries to entice non-gym goers into feeling comfortable with their surroundings. Messages that discourage muscle-hea...

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Traditional Marriage

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/422391/ryan-anderson-gay-marriage I don't know who this author Ryan Anderson is but I enjoyed th...

Monday, July 27, 2015

Eat it

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421623/gmo-label-movement-loses-ground Good news I think. Too much of the fear about GMO foods is no...

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Lessons from Greece

http://www.politico.eu/article/how-the-olympics-rotted-greece/ Like most problems in Greece lately, the issue results from an overtaxed so...

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Supreme Madness

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420417/supreme-court-john-roberts-marriage-health-care-constitutio A timely lament. Conservatives hav...

Monday, June 22, 2015

Trade anxiety!

http://fortune.com/2015/06/22/top-fast-track-david-ricardo/ Students in any macro-economic class will have encountered David Ricardo and hi...

Monday, June 15, 2015

Constructing Identity

Truth is not relative. Bruce Jenner and Rachel Dolezal have both been in the news lately for different ‘identity’ type conflicts within the...

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First Principles: tulsa, oklahoma, United States; This blog is an effort to improve my writing and sharpen my focus on current events and issues that concern me. It already feels very scatterbrained and lacks a unifying theme except for one. I process all my ideas and beliefs through first principles or basic assumptions about human behavior. I imagine this blog will take a different shape a year from now but I can't imagine what the focus will be. In the process though, I'm learning to be a better researcher and writer. That is enough for now.

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