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About Trains

…new or just that the schedule overlaps with my current walking schedule. There’s a history of train songs in the American folk tradition. Probably the most familiar is Steve Goodman’s…

USPS facing a cash crisis

…USPS, told OpenSecrets. “It’s a political issue.” Another USPS expert has a different view: Steve Hutkins, a retired literature professor at New York University who publishes “Save The Post Office,”…

Cancer teleology

It astonishes me what passes for reasoning among “conservatives.” “Steve Gruber, host of the conservative network’s morning program Day Break, made the announcement Wednesday alongside his guest and wife, Ivey…

Creating the Commons: A Tragedy in No Acts

…The market doesn’t provide the proper incentives. Libertarians seem to be woefully blind to this tragedy. My friend Steve is constantly saying “it’s about incentives, not motives.”* But this ignores…