OK fine, I lied. This Cold War 2 update is neither happy nor fun. But it is necessary and important. Half a year ago, when I wrote that a lot of what we see in the news can be explained by the ...

After widespread rioting at the weekend – estimated to have cost several hundred million dollars in property damage and theft ...

The core belief of the New Right, in other words, is that Western Civilization is being invaded by barbarians — people from ...

The internet runs on a bunch of code written by human beings over a period of years. Human beings are sloppy and fallible, so ...

But leftists can be NIMBYs as well (and remember, leftists and liberals are generally different people). In various cities, concerns over gentrification, environmental preservation, and profits for ...

An AI bust wouldn’t spell the end of AI, of course, any more than the bust of 1873 spelled the end for the railroads or for ...

A pizza wheel — also known as a rolling pizza cutter or just a “pizza cutter” — is not a great tool for cutting pizza. I know that’s a statement that’s going to anger a lot of people when I say it, ...

“Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the land from which his forefathers came and ...

I still remember, twenty years ago, reading The Right Nation, by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. Published after George W. Bush’s close victory in the presidential contest of 2004, the book ...

Recently I’ve been writing some fairly gloomy stuff, mostly related to war and international affairs. But even though I’ve been focusing on scary happenings overseas, I’m still very optimistic about ...

The economist Robert Solow died this week, at the age of 99. He was a giant in his field, reshaping macroeconomics in a million ways that we take for granted today. Although he did work in numerous ...