We introduced LIBERTY LANE at Freedomfest 2022 in conjunction with the wonderful folks at FreedomFest! Below are shots from the...
Venezuela is issuing paper notes denominated at One Million bolivars. The notes are worth just over fifty cents each. Today....
You would think that the Wall Street Journal would understand the laws of Supply and Demand. But this article demonstrates...
Here’s a great article by Salmon Kahn of Kahn Academy. Blended learning elevates the experience for both teacher and student....
You should never negotiate with yourself. That is, once you make an offer to your opponent you should never improve...
My sister, Susie, and I went to THSC last week and she had to share her thoughts about her first...
On pitching, we saw similar progression as in negotiating. Initially, it was all about the product; kids were acting as...
More on my time at Southfield… on negotiating, I noticed that kids seem to go through distinct stages. First, they’re...
Southfield School invited me to do some teaching with the 5th graders. It was a great experience! I was reflecting...
Over the last 20 years, what has happened to the world poverty rate? A: Increased by 22.4% B: Stayed the...
Venezeula’s boss, after creating crushing hyperinflation, now proposes to fix it by cutting a few zeros off the bills. It’s...
Our latest Once Class at a Time winner comes to us from St. John Berchman’s School in Shreveport. Amy Vitacca...
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in. This Greek proverb is...
I prefer not to post something this mature but I have to use whatever means I can to combat these...
Bottom line: play is natural and important; play is getting squeezed out (largely by school); kids suffer as a result....
Traveling this week in Estonia, one of the former soviet states. All the soviet relics (buildings, statuary, monuments) stand out...
A lot’s been written about the problems with “Generation X”. This is another case of over-aggregation leading to a false...
The most profound topic in economics, says Roberts, is that order emerges from the peaceful interactions of people in the...
Here is a great article from Vanderbilt on what expertise is and how to develop it. “There is a difference between...
Historically there’s been a lot of suspicion regarding Interest. In ancient times people understood that if you let someone use...
“That’s only a want, not a need”, a student dismissively said this week of an item he didn’t consider important....
Editor’s note: my friend Anne is a software engineer who immigrated from Viet Nam years ago. Her story about croissants...
“War is good for the economy.” Perhaps the ugliest fallacy on the planet. How do we know it’s wrong? Bastiat...
Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future. This is an important maxim we should share with all...
Been in the classroom lately with Ms. E, who’s taking her first laps with EA. And she’s absolutely killing it....
Economics is sometimes called a “social science”, a potentially misleading term and maybe even an oxymoron. In the “hard sciences”...
Do boys and girls think differently? Are their brains actually different? Leonard Sax, in Why Gender Matters, says yes to...
About two months ago Venezuela announced that the military would take over food distribution. Now there are reports of that...
EA strives to promote critical thinking in all activities and lessons. But people differ in what they mean by critical...
Why does adopting Marxism ALWAYS cause such misery and destruction (USSR, China, N. Korea, Venezuela)? Because Marx’s theories were wrong;...
Get this: some folks get together for the weekend for the purpose of starting a business. By the end of...
Went swimming at Centenary yesterday and found the pool chock full of COSST (city of Shreveport swim team) kids. There...
It fascinates me to see how flimsy (and widely accepted) the arguments for regulating “monopolies” are. The story goes that...
Marginal revenue equals marginal cost is a mainstay of neoclassical economics. I learned it in school and I’ve taught it...
