The World in Which We Live NowLecture at the Annual Meeting of the Ron Paul Institute, 2025Sep 15Sep 15
Published inINCERTOA Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant(First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.)May 12, 2024A response icon83May 12, 2024A response icon83
Published inINCERTOBitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles:On The Cluster of Charlatans, Zero Interest Rate Virgins, & Crypto TumorsJan 4, 2023A response icon73Jan 4, 2023A response icon73
Published inINCERTOHow I write(Preface to the 15th year Italian edition of The Black Swan)Oct 30, 2022A response icon72Oct 30, 2022A response icon72
Published inINCERTOOn ChristianityAn essay as a foreword for Tom Holland’s DominionAug 25, 2022A response icon20Aug 25, 2022A response icon20
Published inINCERTONo, Covid 19 is not an old person problemClearly Covid affects the old, disproportionately. But so do practically almost all other ailments. A simple fact of life, in a population…Nov 29, 2021A response icon1Nov 29, 2021A response icon1
Published inINCERTOSafe HeavenForeword to Mark Spitznagel’s book Safe Haven [Amazon]May 6, 2021A response icon27May 6, 2021A response icon27
Published inINCERTOMaestro BogomolnyForeword for Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles by Alexander B.Nov 18, 2020A response icon8Nov 18, 2020A response icon8
Published inINCERTOReligion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with TheologyReligions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies.Oct 21, 2020A response icon50Oct 21, 2020A response icon50
Lebanon: from Ponzi to AntifragilityAbout two years before the recent collapse, at a dinner, a then (slow thinking) member of the Lebanese parliament kept bugging me for an…Jul 10, 2020A response icon14Jul 10, 2020A response icon14
