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Human Evolution and Music, Music, Music

by Timothy Lutts Originally written in May 2009, this column helped me answer a question I’d wondered about for decades: why had humans evolved to appreciate and create music? What was the advantage?...

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The Great Credit Shrinkage

by Timothy Lutts I originally wrote about the great credit shrinkage in December 2008, and it still seems sensible. In the four years since the financial crisis of the time, individual and corporations...

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The Economics of Legal Marijuana

by Timothy Lutts I originally wrote this in October 2009. Many U.S. states have come a long way since then but even more have done nothing. And the Federal government, sadly, remains deaf to the...

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Net Neutrality

GUEST POST by Chloe Lutts This article on Net Neutrality was written by my daughter Chloe Lutts in August 2010. As a child of the digital age, she summarized the issue far better than I did when I once...

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Eight Stupid Rules that are a Drag on the U.S. Economy

by Timothy Lutts I originally wrote this list of eight stupid rules in September 2012, and the good news is that there has been some progress since then. The Federal government looks like it will...

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The Theory of Contrary Opinion

“When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong.” That’s what Humphrey B. Neill wrote in his seminal contrary opinion book, The Art of Contrary Thinking, first published in 1954. But Neill...

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