“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy….. The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger real or IMAGINED, from abroad.” —James Madison— Beginning on that fateful day in September of 2001, or not really the beginning […]

Nassim Taleb is an epistemologist who wrote a book on philosophy called, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Wikipedia defines ‘epistemology’ as, “the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and limitations of knowledge; also known as The Theory of Knowledge.” It asks the questions: What is knowledge? How is knowledge acquired? […]