Spherical Model

Since I first posted the Spherical Model website, back in 2010, I’ve left it pretty nearly untouched. Today I’m contemplating a change—...

Last week’s Economics 101 lesson ( week 6 , through Hillsdale College, online for free) was on “Incentive and the ‘Information Problem.’...

Today we celebrate the 400 th Spherical Model blog post. We’re celebrating all week by collecting some of the better examples of the Sphe...

This is my 399 th blog post. The next post is the 400 th . That’s a lot of words in about 2 ¼ years. I think my son Political Sphere is p...

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money”—Margaret Thatcher I was thinking about this quote a...

Today is the second anniversary of the beginning of the Spherical Model blog, and we’re doing a recap of the basics of what the Spherical Mo...

Lately it seems like every book I pick up (often young adult novels and series) is someone’s imagining of a post-apocalyptic tyrannical ...

Let me start with the childhood memory of a favorite lunchbox treat. My mom used to put Twinkies in the freezer, and then they would not o...