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Our Joy is Catching

Posted on February 7, 2020 by Joel D. Hirst

Just as I was penning my own thoughts on our arriving satisfaction, a world away on the shores of the Pacific – the same thoughts, eloquently expressed below. Maybe there’s something to our new Pax Americana?? “The money hit means … Continue reading →

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Our Empty Planet

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

We have been taught by the deejays of doom in the media, the hard-left apocalyptic political class and their ‘scientists’ at the United Nations that the end is nigh. Water wars; energy shocks; rising of sea levels swamping first Venice … Continue reading →

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What Causes Poverty? — (Hint, nothing)

Posted on March 10, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

What causes poverty? Nothing. Nothing causes poverty; poverty is the natural state of man. Naked and in the dark – that is how nature birthed us. But just as we figured out how to take the fibers from banana plant … Continue reading →

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On What Progress Might Look Like

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

I take my tiny dog out in the early African mornings, they are my favorite times on the continent. The little early-birds are chirping around, seated on the razor wire atop the walls which protect us from ‘the anarchy that … Continue reading →

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The Power of Progress

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

Words are funny things, slippery and somehow hard to pin down; little moving targets making thought difficult or missiles correctly aimed in order to destroy in far worse ways than the whips and chains of old. Language has always been … Continue reading →

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A Green New Deal? – Part IV

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

Well this has been fun, distilling the “Green New Deal” into bite-size chunks (sorry for oversimplifying things, for which I will be routinely pilloried – as it is, this has been too long and I have risked becoming a bore). … Continue reading →

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A Green New Deal? – Part III

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

As I think through our current environmental problem, I realize that I am not the most sanguine of interlocutors. I do not see our future brightly, perched as I am at the inverse of epicenter where the waves of destruction … Continue reading →

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Re-Igniting America’s Imagination

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Joel D. Hirst

“Judah says he can still remember the exact moment, nearly 75 years ago, after 10 months in a concentration camp, when he and his family were put on a train, and told they were going to another camp. Suddenly the … Continue reading →

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America’s New Aristocracy

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Joel D. Hirst

Every morning, here in West Africa, as I prepare my little boy for his school – the gym and the recess and the library, PE and science class and field trips – I look through the window of my kitchen … Continue reading →

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“Four Futures” – A Book Review (if this had actually been a book)

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Joel D. Hirst

Sometimes you click on a link somewhere, in something that you’re reading, which takes you to another link and another and another as you continue the train of thought of your line of inquiry as far as time allows. When … Continue reading →

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