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Opinion
How Government Lost 15 Million Acres of Public Land in the United States
Leave it to the United States Government to lose track of almost three states worth of public land. Only an…
Read More » A Brief History of California’s Eugenics Program (1909-2013)
It is a commonsense view that government spending is generally inefficient compared to spending by private people and businesses. As…
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Opinion
The Authoritarian Implications of Greta Thunberg’s Crusade against Markets
Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Time Magazine’s 2019 “person the year” Greta Thunberg, who has spoken to world leaders at…
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Opinion
What Makes Lina Khan’s Antitrust Vision so Radical—and Why It Will Strangle Tech Startups
Throughout the history of antitrust legislation in the United States, its stated purpose has been to protect consumers from corporations…
Read More » Why the Dutch Farmer Protest Is Your Cause, Too
It was a standoff in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands on the evening of July 5. Police fired…
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Opinion
Paul Krugman’s Case for ‘Technological Pessimism’ Is Weak, Lazy, and Wrong
The debate over whether technological progress is ultimately good or bad for humanity just doesn’t seem to go away. From…
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Opinion
Why Economic Degrowth Is Terrible for Everyone—Especially the Poor
The economic growth numbers have come in for the first quarter of this year, and they’re dismal. In the United…
Read More » The Flaw in Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying’s Proposal for the Future of Humanity
Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, evolutionary biologists and visiting fellows at Princeton University, have written a fascinating new book, A…
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Science, Technology, and Social Media
Three Amazing Benefits That Could Come From the Metaverse
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently released a letter and video announcing the long anticipated new branding of the Facebook umbrella…
Read More » What the New York Times Gets Wrong about Automation
Technological automation of industry has accelerated in countless sectors of the economy, from service to manufacturing, since the start of…
Read More »Top Global Energy Agency Calls for Phasing Out of All Gas-Powered Cars, Coal-Fired Plants
A report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) proposed a radical policy agenda last month: Immediately end the approval of…
Read More »Even the NYT Just Admitted the CDC May Be Broken Beyond Repair
As the COVID-19 pandemic seems in many ways to be winding down, journalists and academics are reflecting on the performance…
Read More »Here’s Why Cities Across America Are Spending a Fortune to Tear Down Their Public Highways
A growing movement of local governments and communities across the United States is beginning to grapple with an unfortunate realization:…
Read More »The Malthusian Fallacy Paul Krugman Just Fell For
Over the last decade, United States population growth was at its lowest rate since the 1930s, according to a report…
Read More »What Elon Musk’s Critics Get Wrong about Colonizing Mars
On May 5, SpaceX successfully launched and landed its reusable rocketship, Starship SN15. This was a landmark achievement for the…
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