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 […]
Technology
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 […]
Does Trump Threaten Science? Part 1
The American Association of University Professors has issued a short thunderclap of a report accusing President Trump of undermining the natural sciences. By itself, this […]
An America First National Security Strategy
The Trump Administration continues to run circles around its detractors. In an historically unusual move, President Donald Trump will be unveiling his administration’s first National […]
The Case for an American Space Corps
If a space war between the United States and a near-peer rival, like China or Russia, were to break out tomorrow, the United States likely […]
What Will It Take to Get Serious About Missile Defense?
North Korea’s possession of mobile-launched missiles that can deliver nukes anywhere in the United States shows that, nowadays, anybody can make lots of pinpoint-accurate missiles […]
America Needs Space Weapons—Now
The United States today exists in an increasingly unstable, multipolar world of competing states. Since the start of the Global War on Terror in 2001, […]
The Left’s Moral Kulturkampf Reaps the Whirlwind
Lena Dunham, queen of the Twitter “Listen and Believe” brigade, former “Girls” star, and self-declared feminist, initially defended her show’s male writer from a claim […]
Against Net Neutrality
Net neutrality has a nice ring to it. Who doesn’t want an even playing field? But the internet evolved rapidly in a deregulated environment. And […]