One month after announcing the creation of a cybersecurity coordinator, the Obama administration is nowhere close to naming one (there is no timetable yet) and already one candidate is turning the position down. Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman from … read more
Nick, in answer to your question, I don’t see any evidence that the left is “thinking very carefully” about anything these days. People who want to pass this cap-and-trade bill, to take just the latest example, are in a cognitively … read more
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, a clownish caudillo (strongman) and acolyte of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, has been riding for a fall in his clumsy campaign to amend the constitution to allow him to seek a second term. Alas, this weekend, … read more
Al Hunt writing on Iran in the New York Times, channeling ghosts of Iran failures past: That Mr. Ahmadinejad and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, felt it necessary to immediately claim a landslide victory illustrates what a fragile hold … read more
As people continue to resist draconian greenhouse gas control schemes that would virtually re-order society around energy rationing and technocratic authoritarianism, proponents of such an eco-revolution are ratcheting up the rhetoric of hate. People such as James Hansen and Al … read more
Charles, your point that the vast majority of social science research results today are “politically incorrect” makes me wonder what the political response will be over time. For example, at what point might the political left become a “Darwinian Left” … read more
As this brief explains, nearly all of the education funding in the federal stimulus legislation will go toward filling state education budget holes and saving jobs, not generating important education improvements and innovations. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, however, has been … read more
It must be nice to be as smart—as prescient—as Harvard’s E.O. Wilson. In 1998, he published a book called Consilience telling us that 21st-century social science would be increasingly driven by the findings of the hard sciences. We are already … read more
Joe Wiesenthal, Felix Salmon, and Tyler Cowen have raised the issue of how useful GDP is as a measure of well-being since it doesn’t capture of lot of activities humans find valuable. Those interested in this discussion should take a … read more
