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Few people are aware of the fact that “climate change” means very different things in science and in policy. That difference exposes the fundamental incoherence of climate policy, highlighted by the ...
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 ...
Yesterday, as rumored, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced that he would recognize a Palestinian state. “We,” he wrote on X, “will win the peace.” Every word but “the” in that statement is a ...
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.
Too often, the same authoritarians whom Trump praises interpret his admiration as a green light to target Americans on American soil.
In July 2024 I wrote a five-part series on data center energy use. Two of those posts focused on the thorny question of how data centers would contract for power in settings where utility ...
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 ...
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 ...
If the EU wants its digital economy to flourish, it should spend less time redistributing data and more time removing the shackles that keep its businesses from competing on a global stage.
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 ...
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 ...
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