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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.” — Ernest Hemingway What is the greatest city on Earth? If you answered “New York City”, I wouldn’t laugh at you.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...