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 […]
Technology
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, […]
Thank America’s Debt for China’s Rise
China continues to make bold moves in the direction of fulfilling its ambitions of being the great global power. While China has certainly experienced economic […]
Military Dollars, and Sense
The bipartisan agreement to increase the Pentagon’s budget by $81 billion lets the U.S defense establishment fatten current programs and continue to do business as […]
When Competition Causes an Industry to Collapse
Last week’s New York Times carried a story about a taxi-cab driver named Doug Schifter who committed suicide. The Times wanted to dramatize the despair […]
Smarter Regs Can Be a ‘Force Multiplier’ for U.S. Research
Several years ago, I participated in a colloquium with a title along the lines of “Advancing Technology: Thinking Outside the Box.” My lecture probably was […]
Cheatin’ Hillary’s Crooked Enablers
You don’t need to master some secret art of literary exegesis to see that the terse four-page Nunes memo—released Friday, despite unprecedented establishment apoplexy over […]
Sovereignty is Critical, Even In a Cloud-Based World
President Trump stands for putting America first. This means putting U.S. interests and values ahead of the interests and values of foreigners. It means insisting […]
NASA’s Safety Bureaucracy Tips the Scales Against Private Space
In the past two weeks, two separate reports have come out suggesting that the commercial manned capsules SpaceX and Boeing are building to ferry astronauts […]
In Defense of Monopolies
Economists love words. They have a word for just about everything, and if they don’t then they’ll make one up. Economics is rife with jargon. […]
No, America’s Farmers Don’t Depend on Illegal Immigration
Liberals frame the debate over illegal immigration as a dilemma: either America grants amnesty to aliens or the economy will collapse. Some even imply that […]
De Blasio’s Hot Wind Blows Hard
More than five years after New York City was pummeled by Superstorm Sandy, killing dozens of people and causing billions of dollars in damages, Mayor […]
‘Black Mirror’ and Liberal Nightmares
A new season of “Black Mirror” just dropped on Netflix, and it’s worth your time. Liberalism is ahead of conservatives when it comes to technological […]
Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 3
On December 7, the American Association of University Professors issued a thirteen-page statement, “National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom,” that attacked President […]
Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 2
On December 7—a date presumably chosen because it is Pearl Harbor Day and thus resonates with general alarm—the American Association of University Professors issued a […]