Lanny on Learning

Many of my friends and family are feeling malaise now, given the outcome of the election.  I am no different.  But where I'm likely to b...

What I write here was triggered by seeing an ad in Facebook about a Master Class taught by the well known writer, Michael Lewis.  I've r...

Giancarlo Stanton Seems like he could be in Canton But with so often going for the downs Its more probable to be Cooperstown. #MVPForTheALCS

The last week or two I've been haunted by the following metaphorical scenario.  A cancer patient has learned that the disease has meta...

Getting the meaning in what you read Doing so at near ultimate speed The inherent contradiction Brings forth an affliction Which is termed -...

I'm going to give a brief reaction to this piece in the New York Times: Many Gen Z Men Fell Left Behind.  Some See Trump as an Answer.  ...

So it seems we now have each political party claiming to be populist.   I am quite cynical about Republican populism and I definitely am not...

Nowadays, I mainly do my book reading on an electronic device, mostly that's a Kindle Fire, and recently I read a novel on my new Mac la...

I'm responding to this opinion piece from Peter Wehner entitled What Has Happened to My Party Haunts Me .  There is no doubt that those ...

I am reacting to this essay , which appeared in yesterday's New York Times.  Let me say first what I liked about it.  There is no doubt ...

The book was published in 1962. I was 7 at the time.  The movie came out in 1964.  I don't think I ever saw it in the theater, but I wat...

The traditional macroeconomic measures of economy-wide  performance are the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.  When both are low the...

This piece is meant as something of a refutation to, A Year on Ozempic Taught Me We’re Thinking About Obesity All Wrong , an opinion piece i...