Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World
The Congo has a way of putting first-world prophecies of climate apocalypse into perspective.
Michael Shellenberger
· 37 min read
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Jeffrey Epstein's Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow's Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation
The New Yorker story remains an albatross around my neck.
Peter Cohen
· 27 min read
Free Speech is a Value, not a Right
Free speech is subordinate to the private property rights of whatever resources are needed to speak in the first place.
Logan Chipkin
· 7 min read
To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’
In the case of COVID-19, we know that diabetes, hypertension, and obesity all are significant comorbidities.
Amr F. Hamour
· 5 min read
Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem
There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 11 min read
Affirmative Action in a Multiethnic Nation
India’s reticular caste system poses unique problems. Legions of ethnic groups seek categorization as “backwards classes.”
Joshua Hunter
· 7 min read
Local Farming Can't Save the Planet
Globalization has made our food ridiculously cheap compared to previous eras. But perhaps that’s part of the problem.
Hidde Boersma and Maarten Boudry
· 9 min read
On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry
It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions.
Peter Toshev
· 6 min read
Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics
To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
Javier Arcos Hódar
· 15 min read
The Room Where It Happened—A Review
Money is a consistently recurring theme. Trump told Bolton at one point that other presidents had not talked about money, but that he liked to do so.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
Policing in the Anomie Era
Over the last 20 years there has been a massive increase in awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada.
Mike Wilson
· 10 min read
On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare
Environmental groups have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from fossil fuel interests.
Michael Shellenberger
· 8 min read
The New York Times and the Importance of Conclusion Neutrality
The conclusion neutral standard is the journalistic expression of classical liberal values.
Max Diamond
· 9 min read
Can the Chinese Communist Party Achieve Global Dominance?
Aaron Sarin
· 15 min read
On Race and Inequality—A Reply to Nathan J. Robinson
The reality is that virtually no two ethnic groups in history have ever achieved equal outcomes on all measures, anywhere, ever.
Samuel Kronen
· 10 min read