Farewell to the great Patrick Stewart. And farewell also, Captain Picard. In the greatest trek of all — our search for the ...

I’m writing about this a little bit late, but France has been having some pretty bad riots: After widespread rioting at the weekend – estimated to have cost several hundred million dollars in property ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas ...

The bill to require discounts for self-checkout will probably not pass. But what’s notable is that if this bill did pass, it would have exactly the opposite of the effect its creators want. The stated ...

But leftists can be NIMBYs as well (and remember, leftists and liberals are generally different people). In various cities, concerns over gentrification, environmental preservation, and profits for ...

My most popular post at my old blog, back in 2013, was called “If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD”. People still ask me about it to this day. In that post, I categorized PhD’s into three types: ...

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 ...

The theme of this week’s roundup is the fall of capitalism. With Trump going for price controls and tariffs, and anticorporate progressives savagely attacking Ezra Klein for wanting to build more ...

Sometimes it’s fun to be right about big, important predictions. This is not one of those times. A year ago, I wrote that “a vote for Trump is a vote for chaos”, arguing that a second Trump term would ...

Jerry Z. Muller, writing at Project Syndicate, calls for more research into the question of " Why do Jews succeed?" He's hardly the first to ask this question. Even the famous economist Simon Kuznets ...