We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. Social value measured on an earnings scale doesn’t just get deprioritized, it doesn’t exist.
What legal scholars are seeing behind the smoke screen is far darker. They say the single most radical thing the court did wasn’t confirming birthright citizenship, but instead it was the dismantling of barriers that had long insulated a broad sector of the federal government from raw presidential control.
Donald Trump has been unofficially (but reliably) diagnosed as a pathological narcissist. And now his egomania is consuming the July 4 holiday and the...
The idea that you can love America and be a great patriot while being a know-nothing about our form of government or reflexively denouncing it is pretty much BS.