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The Crime of Human Virtue

Mike Olson

Mike Olson

12 Oct 2025

I loved this essay by A.R. Moxon. You might, too.

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Asymmetric warfare

Thousands are dead after more than five weeks of Donald Trump's war on Iran. Most of those are Iranians, including heavy civilian casualties due to attacks on infrastructure and at least one school. But the death toll includes members of the US military, and civilians and military personnel

By Mike Olson 13 Apr 2026

More unusual Trump family M&A

I wrote recently about plans for Trump Social to merge with a fusion energy company. It's a weird deal – the two businesses are in different markets building different products for very different customers! – but after thinking about it for a while, I understood the motivation. The Trump Media

By Mike Olson 19 Feb 2026

Immigration and elections

News broke this past week or so on two fronts that I want to cover here. Immigration On the American television series Law and Order, each episode begins with a narrator intoning, "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the

By Mike Olson 05 Feb 2026

Streets of Minneapolis

Mixing my media here, but my brother-in-law Rick Galusha has been doing a radio show in Omaha, Nebraska for forty years on Americana and roots music. He and I just recorded a show on Bruce Springsteen's new song, Streets of Minneapolis. You can give the show a listen

By Mike Olson 30 Jan 2026
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