Sep 15, 2025
Effective leaders must take advice into consideration but not allow one expert to dictate decisions. Policy choices require tradeoffs between conflicting government objectives.
Sep 2, 2025
Billions of dollars spent on atomic bombs and bombers as well as intercontinental ballistic missiles could provide adequate security for less money that conventional forces.
Aug 28, 2025
If someone tells you a worldwide grid to distribute solar energy is impossible because of transmission losses, ask yourself how much stock that person has in oil wells.
Aug 19, 2025
Although Mr. Trump repeatedly speaks of "Making Brazil Pay," "Making China Pay," etc., he's actually imposing a tax on goods imported into the U.S. from those countries.
Aug 6, 2025
Anti-discrimination legislation, although well meant, has produced a horrible tangle of moral, legal, and practical issues. We need to sort out this tangle and completely rethink discrimination.
Jul 11, 2025
The human race is confronting a monumental challenge to its very existence and has been unable to rise above tribal rivalries and wars, short-sighted economic interests, and, often, pure hatred of "the other," to cooperate in protecting itself from becoming extinct.
Jul 8, 2025
Mr. Trump shares former president William McKinley's enthusiasm for tariffs. But tariffs on imported goods are an indirect sales tax. Like sales taxes, they increase the prices that consumers of those goods must pay and the extra money goes to our government.
Jun 23, 2025
Americans have long bragged that we are the world's most advanced nation. We certainly used to be. But those leading earlier in a race do not always end up winning it.