Clearing the Tabs July 31, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on August 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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July 17
How Socialism Captured the West Coast
Cities including Seattle, Portland, and Los Angeles have become new political battlegrounds for a socialist resurgence.

July 20
Cool Comfort Denied: Europe’s War on Air Conditioning

July 22
The End of the Populist Style
Populism won many of its battles and exhausted its act. What's emerging next is a new constructivism.

July 24
Trump is Right to Take On the Climate Litigation Complex
President Trump has laid into a new report from the National Academy of Sciences that purports to support 'extreme weather' climate litigation. He's right to do so.

July 26
Revenge of the Laffer Curve…Again

July 29
Beware the Experts Who Tie Prosperity to Consumption

July 31
‘California Never?’ Utopian City Faces Setbacks from Industrial Flight

Clearing the Tabs July 15, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July 31. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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July 1
Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist New York Dream is About to Turn Sour
They hate billionaires. But their child-like supporters are going to discover that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

The Democrats’ Green Delusion: Using the Iran War to Double Down on Renewables

July 12
The Scourge of Teen Takeovers
Why youths are rampaging in cities across America—and how to stop it

Clearing the Tabs June 30, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on June 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 27, 2026
Marilyn Monroe Reminds Us Learnedness Is a Choice, Not a Policy

Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on June 30. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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June 13
Piketty’s Eco-Marxist Utopia: Why Degrowth and Global Redistribution Will Trap the Poor in Poverty

June 14
Bitcoin Is Totally Useless As Money, Not Because It’s Declining

Clearing the Tabs May 31, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on June 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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May 21, 2026

Learning from a Great Man: Bob Woodson, R.I.P.

Robert Woodson, RIP

May 22

An Ode to Little League

Bob Woodson Against the Grievance Machine
The Woodson Center founder believed America’s poor needed opportunity, responsibility, and hope — not permanent dependency and racial agitation.

The Bigger, Paradoxically Compassionate Meaning In Meta's Layoffs

May 25
The Architects of American Renewal
Our country still needs leaders who didn’t nurse grievances but chose the path of radical grace.

May 29
The Problem With Economics Is Macroeconomics

Clearing the Tabs April 30, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on May 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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April 23
The Climate Litigation Swindle
A flood of lawsuits utilizing junk science seeks to bankrupt energy companies and undermine the basis of American power.

April 27

The Roots of Recession
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.

Clearing the Tabs Aril 15, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on April 30. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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April 3
The Laffer Curve and Limits to Class Warfare Tax Policy, Part II

April 6

Why Californians Are Leaving
And what Gavin Newsom is spending $19M to hide

April 13
California's Aging Population Will Cripple Its Economy
The state's loss of economic productivity from out-migration of Millennials won't be helped by moves that incentivize Boomers to stay.

April 14

UK Economist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: High Energy Prices are ‘Good for the Climate’

April 15
West Virginia Was Ravaged by the Opioid Crisis. Things Are Finally Turning Around