The House IT Scandal
Russian meddling? Campaign collusion? Forget that. That “did they or didn’t they” story has nothing on the ongoing saga of cybersecurity breaches with the possible […]
Technology
Alight With Good Intentions
I guess “Lit” is the new “Woke.” On April 14, David S. Buckel, a prominent attorney renowned for championing gay rights and environmental causes, doused […]
Zuckerberg’s A.I. Hope is a Free Speech Nightmare
The most terrifying thing about Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance on Tuesday before a special joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees wasn’t anything he […]
No Algorithm for the Human Soul
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week faced questions from powerful committees in both houses of Congress on the subject of how the social […]
Trump Is Right to Fear Amazon
President Trump’s feud with the shopping giant Amazon is both welcome and overdue. Welcome, because Amazon’s ambitions extend well beyond the monopoly power that Trump […]
The Baguette Shop: A Parable About Trade
You own an artisanal bakery that makes the best $2 baguettes in town. Business is booming. In fact, business is so good that a German […]
Why Tariffs Will Benefit American Consumers
In a recent piece for the Washington Post, former CNN correspondent Heather Long and her colleague Andrew Van Dam contend that President Trump’s tariffs will […]
Just Log Off
Facebook’s latest public-relations nightmare increasingly looks likely (and finally) to be the proximate cause of regulation or, at least, interrogation of the company for its […]
Economic Nationalism Helps Workers and Strengthens the Nation
Among the many malapropisms of Donald Trump during the campaign, one in particular rankled the credentialed class. After his primary victory in Nevada, Trump intoned, […]
A Nation of Passengers
One of the hallmarks of American freedom is one’s sense of personal autonomy: we are free to go where we want, whenever we want, subject […]
The Space Race: Savants of Human Space Exploration
Commercial and military space exploitation never want for a motive. Like the bronze and silver lower classes of Plato’s Republic, most space exploitation thrives on […]
Ted Cruz, Free Trade, and the Future GOP
This is a very different Ted Cruz than I remember.” That was correspondent Kasie Hunt’s assessment on “Morning Joe” as the Republican senator from Texas […]
Why China Will Fail
This is not a happy time to be an entrepreneur seeking to list your firm on one of China’s stock exchanges. Nor is your situation […]
How Authentic Is Public Input on Science-Driven Public Policy?
Although we are healthier and live longer than our predecessors, and our food supply is more varied and inexpensive than ever, Americans are manifesting anxiety […]
Motor City Strikes Again: ‘Stop the Killer Cars!’
Leave it to the Regressive Left to put a pothole on the Motor City’s road to renewal. After decades of struggling, including becoming America’s largest […]
Rules for Right-Wingers on Facebook
Are the left-leaning engineers at California based social media giants plotting to censor right-leaning people? Perhaps. Are right-leaning people on Facebook being targeted or silenced? […]
The Great Social Media Purge: No One Is Safe
Social media is often abuzz with politics—from immigration and gun control to infrastructure and tariffs. Rarely is the social media itself the topic of discussion. […]
The Great Information War is Here
A few days after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, many conservative commentators began to notice they were also being targeted. […]
Why Trump is Right About Tariffs
In 1988, Donald Trump told Oprah Winfrey that America was being “ripped off” by its trading partners. Nearly 2 million Americans lost their manufacturing jobs […]
‘Black Panther’ and the American Dream
Marvel’s “Black Panther” is now the most successful movie to star black people and, not coincidentally, it’s an American movie full of Americans. The press, […]