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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lot of people — at least, a lot of people who read this blog — know of Matt Yglesias’ book One Billion Americans. It’s good, you should read it. But not as many seem to know that it’s actually a ...

The first thing that really strikes you about Singapore is how incredibly rich it is. And you can really feel it, as soon as you step off the plane. Changi Airport tops most lists of the best airports ...

“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 ...