Gregg Easterbrook

1 week ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. The growing field of “positive psychology” – asking not why some become mentally ill but how others achieve well-being – thinks gratitude, forgiveness, optimism and kindness not only are good for society, are good for the person who embraces them. You should work to become a better person because you will benefit. Those around you will too, but that’s a bonus.

2 weeks ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Next month there will be a military parade in Washington D.C. Whether this is a wise use of public funds can be debated, but such parades are not incompatible with democracy. On Bastille Day, France holds a military parade through Paris. In Copenhagen there are two annual military parades -- one to honor the Danish flag, another to salute the throne. According to Defense News, the Washington parade will feature 28 enormous M1 Abrams tanks plus dozens of other armored vehicles.

3 weeks ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Please tap the {{heart}} button, which helps new readers find All Predictions Wrong. Since the Tesla Model S went on sale in 2012, electric cars have dominated auto politics, auto manufacturers’ capital planning and the pages of “buff books” such as Motor Trend. California and the New England states enacted rules to favor electric cars (and electric trucks and buses). Detroit automakers under the first Trump Administration opposed the mandates.

4 weeks ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

Since returning to the White House in January, Donald Trump has declared eight national emergencies. The United States has not been attacked. The economy is in mostly good condition. Tornadoes and heavy rain hit Tennessee and Kentucky, but there has been no major natural disaster. There is no epidemic. Goods, services, foodstuffs, energy and primary materials are plentiful. Yet eight national emergencies announced in slightly more than three months.

1 month ago | greggeasterbrook.substack.com | Gregg Easterbrook

The NFL draft is presented to the public as a form of entertainment. Nearly 14 million viewers watched, more than the average for last season’s NBA Finals, which pit the large markets of Dallas and Boston; more than the average audience for Tracker, number-one scripted show. Boy was the slide of Shedeur Sanders entertaining, injecting drama and pathos into what’s fundamentally the reading of a list of names.