Chad Aaron Hall

Kodak's demise, said the bankruptcy judge this week, was "a tragedy of American economic life" – and it is even truer than he realizes. More than 50,000 retirees have seen their pensions slashed if not totally eliminated; shareholders were wiped out, while creditors will be getting four or five cents on the dollar. An entire city, Rochester, New... See more

1. We all know that political polarization is on the rise in many nations: Members of the two main parties hate each other more this week than they did last week, and hated each other more last week than they did last year. A new U.S. study reveals an interesting additional detail: Independents increasingly hate both sides.

Obviously, people are not as productive as they work longer and longer hours. It’s bad for health. It’s especially bad for women, people with families, people who have to care for elderly parents, people with children, and so forth. (My Hoover colleague Val Bolottnyy has a nice paper with Natalia Emanuel showing how overtime hurts women, even with... See more

It was inevitable that a rift would emerge between the enlightened critics and the unwashed masses who, as it turned out, would rather not undergo mandatory DEI training every time they turn on the television. The one-two punches of #MeToo followed by BLM only widened it.

Nutrients, fasting, grounding (touching Earth with bare feet or other body parts), sunlight, sleep, and exercise facilitate the body’s detoxifying, self-healing abilities. Animal organs are ample, underused sources of fat-soluble vitamins. Silicon-rich mineral water removes aluminum from the body.125 Bacillus subtilis , a rod-shaped bacteria, can... See more

The bulk of the work is researching—collecting stories, anecdotes, and data to marshal your argument. The writing is stringing those pieces together. I’ve found stuff I’ve used in in-flight magazines, discovered snippets on social media, even heard things mentioned on TV. As Shelby Foote put it in an interview with The Paris Review : “I can’t begin... See more