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Trump Turns to Supremes in Plea to Halt Friday Sentencing
With time running out, Trump cuts to the High Court, arguing that its recent immunity decision requires postponing the scheduled Friday sentencing.
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The Protectionist Fallacy Makes Expansionist Wars More Attractive
There is no question that resources sacrificed in a hostile engagement with the interests who would oppose American expansionism exceed the possible rewards.
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The Unfalsifiable Theory of Congestion Pricing
New York City’s experiment with congestion pricing has already been prematurely declared by its supporters a success.
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82-Year-Old Joe Biden: ‘I Wasn’t Looking to Be President When I Was 85 Years...
Biden’s blithe comment about his octogenarian capacities to USA Today — “So far, so good” — is eye-opening.
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Yes, Protection and Expansion Go Together
Sometimes in geopolitics there are zero-sum games, with winners and losers. Seizing Greenland to prevent other rivals from seizing it might be such a game.
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MBD: Hell, Yeah — Take Greenland If It Comes to That
‘On the list of policy ideas, yes, it would be an unjust, aggressive war. But . . . it would be far less costly or dangerous than regime-changing Iran.’
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Britain’s ‘Rape Gangs’ Problem — Not a Surprise
Almost everything about it, including some of the most horrifying details, has been known for more than a decade.
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Dune: Prophecy Threatens to Turn Dune into a Cash-Grab Franchise
Unlike Denis Villeneuve’s cinematic duology, Dune: Prophecy lacks a cohesive vision.
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DOJ Relents on Mar-a-Lago, but Will Publish a Final Special Counsel Report on...
The essential facts of these cases are well known, and the public elected Trump anyway. It is thus unlikely that Democrats will get much mileage out of Jack Smith’s special counsel reports.
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The Conspiracy Theory That Trump Can Evade the 22nd Amendment
The maximum alarm must be pinned to an event that is years enough in the future that the panic can be sustained for quite a while before it can be falsified by events.
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Fact-Checking through the Years
Politifact has been a particular offender against accuracy and good judgment.
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Tech Dystopia in the Grocery Store?
A recent supermarket run provided an eerie portent of a future in which the real world breaks down while the digital world takes on the veneer of a solution.
View ArticleMarkets Aren’t Good Because They’re Efficient. They’re Efficient Because...
Markets do good things in a way that is already aligned with our natural self-interest.
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Twenty Things That Caught My Eye
From society’s ills to the joys of adoption to a silver charm.
View ArticleWind Power: Cold Weather Shock
Reinventing electric grids so that they become reliant on wind and solar, particularly the former, is a retrograde and potentially disastrous step.
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Colleges Will Have to Adjust to a ‘New Normal’
The infighting among competing interests for the dwindling number of dollars will get nasty, but the end result will be a less wasteful higher education sector.
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Biden at Emergency Briefing in Santa Monica Firehouse: ‘The Good News Is I’m...
His sense that this was the right time to brag about the birth of his great-grandchild is further evidence that Biden is just mentally not all there.
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Top N.Y. State Court Denies Trump Effort to Delay Friday Sentencing
The president-elect’s last remaining avenue to having tomorrow’s sentencing blocked is the U.S. Supreme Court.
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