My most popular post at my old blog, back in 2013, was called “If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD”. People still ask me about it to this day. In that post, I categorized PhD’s into three types: ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 threat of U.S. tariffs on Canada and Mexico seems to have abated for now. Both countries made largely symbolic commitments to border security that convinced Trump to delay the tariffs for one ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an old Saturday Night Live skit, Chevy Chase, portraying Gerald Ford, says “It was my understanding that there would be no math.” Half a century later, it seems like this has become America’s ...