Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

Did 5,000 Siberian Cats really save Western Civilization?    (Spoiler Alert:   Nope.)   The story goes something like this: During the Si...

In Robert Heinlein ’s 1956 novel, Time for the Stars , mankind’s most important scientific work is financed by an organization called the Lo...

You could call it royal hypocrisy.   You could call it cognitive dissonance.   You could even call it moral inconsistency—assuming, of cours...

It is almost impossible for me to tell a story without going to the very beginning.   When I taught the freshman course of Western Civilizat...

There is a certain type of city government that looks at a successful private economy the way my cat looks at unattended fried chicken.   It...