Most sci-fi geeks and seasonal moviegoers know that DUNE, Part 1 was recently released into local theatres and will soon be on HBO Max. The movie is based on Frank Herbert's book, Dune, published in 1965. Dune1984, a 2-hour and 17 minute blockbuster movie, carried the entire storyline, while Dune2021 will be broken into two parts. Part 1 is out now and Part 2 will be out in 2022. There was a Dune mini-series filmed in 2000, and starting in 1992, there were a series of adven

In the United States, elections are held throughout the year. There are city and county elections, political party elections, recall elections, ballot referendums, and general elections. This year, 2021, a few of those elections occurred earlier, but the majority were held on a day commonly known as Election Day, the first Tuesday in November. This year, Election Day was November 2, 2021. Here it is almost three weeks later, and one of the top news headlines is the outcome

Last week, I explained that the Ottoman Empire’s restricting the printing press also impacted their ability to grow human capital. Even now, Muslims have an affinity for oral authority instead of personal incentive. Human capital has the unique ability to research and utilize written information and make better decisions based on better information. If you follow oral authority, which is usually from a single source, information may be incorrect, misunderstood, or biased in

Part of the underlying theme of my soon-to-be-published book, Muslim Mechanics, is that Western capitalism is much more robust, more impactful than Islamic capitalism. I maintain that Muslim business concepts in a Western world only slow down economic growth. In the following two blogs, this week and next week, I will share two stories that I think will help explain why Muslim productivity has lagged behind the West. This first history lesson explores how the Ottomans restric