In the annals of history, the first half of 2025 will be remembered for many things. I’d venture that very few are aware of ...

Steve Jobs once likened computers to “bicycles for the mind,” tools that amplify human mental capabilities. A new NBER working paper redeploys that famous metaphor to make a compelling argument about ...

The Trump administration can handle a little more risk—a little more balance—and lead us to airline security policies that save more lives by further opening the skies.

The Air Force’s next-generation Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) program is racked by cost overruns and calls to eliminate its funding. And yet Sentinel’s troubled development ...

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here).

The war with Israel has prompted generational turnover in Iranian military leadership. Israel killed dozens of senior Iranian military officers during the recent 12-day conflict, eliminating many of ...

Five Figures. Every month, I will share five (or so) of the most provocative, interesting, or challenging figures to have recently crossed my desk. Five Figures adds to the features and content ...

Higher tariffs would adversely affect agricultural imports, which would harm US consumers, but the trade actions could also provoke counter-retaliatory actions by affected exporters. Indeed, Canada, ...

Conservative faculty are almost impossible to find at Harvard, and that absence has created a warped, often anti-intellectual, climate on campus. In response to the intense (and deserved ...

Generative AI may live up to the hype. Such is the hopeful verdict from a new Federal Reserve paper evaluating whether AI models are economic fads or foundational breakthroughs. The authors ask ...

The ability of technology companies to assert the First Amendment rights of their users to receive and engage in online speech is essential for expressive freedom and product development.