Farewell to the great Patrick Stewart. And farewell also, Captain Picard. In the greatest trek of all — our search for the ...

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

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

The basic idea is that even if AI is an incredibly useful technology and creates enormous economic growth in the future, the people building the infrastructure (data centers) might borrow so much ...

The core belief of the New Right, in other words, is that Western Civilization is being invaded by barbarians — people from non-Western civilizations, who come to the West under the guise of ...

Back when I was a teenager, a lot of people were very into the Left Behind series. Evangelical Christianity was still very strong in those days, especially in Texas, and Left Behind blew up by putting ...

Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist. But I sometimes feel that he has a blind spot when it comes to the value of new technologies. In 1998 he famously ...

I have a Google Doc with a long list of posts I’ve been meaning to write. Far down the list was a line that read “New Keynesian macroeconomics deserves a Nobel”. Somehow I never got around to writing ...

It’s easy to tune these posts out, for at least two reasons. One is partisanship — as a reader, I’m sure you know how hard it is to separate “Trump is bad” from “Trump made me mad”. The second is ...

“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 ...