The U.S. Credit Rating Just Dropped. It's Time for Radical Budget Reform.
The lack of oversight and the general absence of a long-term vision is creating inefficiency, waste, and red ink as far as the eye can see.
Experts
Public Health Experts Have Lost the Benefit of the Doubt
The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.
Greta Thunberg Isn't a Coronavirus Expert
Electing celebrities won't fix what's wrong with American politics, and encouraging their performative antics won't either. CNN should do better.
The Growth of the "Cultic Milieu" and the Spread of Harmful Ideas
Historian Stephen Davies provides a good explanation of why fringe "cultic milieu" ideas are growing in influence. It's a troubling development, but not one that should lead us to categorically abjure non-mainstream political ideas.
Master Resource Reprises My Takedown of the National Academy of Sciences' Energy Projections
How is America's Energy Future looking nine years after I first panned it? Not so good.
You Are Ignorant, But Not Necessarily Dumb.
A review of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?
Experts manufacture whatever facts an activist, politician, or bureaucrat needs.
Are We Standing on the Edge of the Climate Change "Abyss"?
Reason's science correspondent sends a third dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban.