The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the 'best possible' result in each separate instance.

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - cri…

''Entitlement' is not only the opposite of achievement, it undermines incentives to do all the hard work that leads to achievement. It is the people who were b…

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were -- and I am old enough to remember it.