book review

How to Feed the World

A recent book offers some sage advice: ignore the doom-sayers and make a few small changes to help alleviate the stress in the food system.

Apr 28 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Chokepoints and economic warfare

Deploying the might of the US dollar, rather than the military, to fight America's foreign battles.

Apr 17 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Five final points on migration

Wrapping up my six-part(!) series by noting some of the more interesting migration facts and figures not yet discussed, including how Americans feel…

Sep 26, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Who actually immigrates to the US?

Workers, who have recently had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the American economy!

Sep 25, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

The truth about emigration

Contextualizing emigration within development, and how this impacts origin countries.

Sep 24, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Applying a historical perspective to current US immigration

America has always had a fairly robust foreign-born population. What has changed is where this foreign-born population is coming from.

Sep 20, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

The localized impact of refugee crises

Part two of trying to apply facts and context to current migration.

Sep 19, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Contextualizing global migration and the US border.

Trying to inject facts into the toxic US migration debate.

Sep 18, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Trade Wars are Class Wars

A look at how domestic political economy decisions have global ramifications.

Aug 22, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

Climate Capitali$m

A more optimistic take on the fight against climate change.

Aug 13, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

The Price is Wrong

A look at the recent book detailing why our current market paradigm is not adequately suited to decarbonize the energy sector.

Aug 7, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

America's memory-holed crisis of 1917-1921

Holding a mirror up to America's past to remember that history may not repeat, but it certainly does rhyme.

May 24, 2024 •

Patrick O'Hearn

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