Jordan McGillis, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
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Jordan McGillis
Jordan McGillis is a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, a free market think tank. He was formerly deputy director of policy at the Institute for Energy Research and resides in Southern California.
by | Oct 1, 2023

“Are you joking? In a second.” That was Tucker Carlson’s response to Ben Shapiro way back in 2018 when asked if he would ban autonomous trucks if granted the power. Autonomous trucking, once derided as “always five years away,” is now here….

by | Aug 16, 2023

With a stroke of the presidential pen, President Joe Biden has sabotaged domestic uranium mining and put his own energy agenda in jeopardy. Biden’s August 8 use of the Antiquities Act to declare almost a million acres of land in…

by | Jun 20, 2023

Honolulu is waging lawfare against Big Oil. In a suit the city filed against a who’s-who of oil producers, Honolulu alleges that the companies “individually and collectively played leadership roles in denialist campaigns to misinform and confuse the public” and…

by | May 21, 2023

Competition between the United States and China is the defining feature of international relations in the 21st century. Identifying domains in which one competitor has an advantage over the other is, thus, an exercise of both great interest to the academic and…

by | Apr 9, 2023

“Cut-outs, front groups, false narratives, hidden funding. It has the tradecraft of a covert op.” So says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of both the Budget Committee and the It’s Always Sunny Meme Committee, of his rivals’ political support. Whitehouse’s conspiracy theorizing, recently expanded into…

by | Feb 28, 2023

China has hit a rough patch. As it widened its COVID lockdown catchment areas in 2022, the economic ramifications caught up with it, resulting in its second-worst economic growth rate since the 1970s. Late in the year, just as President…

by | Jan 14, 2023

The Buffalo blizzard of 2022 has notched itself in the record books as one of the most devastating winter storms in American history. The event reminds us of our tenuous well-being amid meteorological cruelty and of the instrumental role energy…

by | Dec 23, 2022

While Americans were doomscrolling through election results on the morning of November 9, something more consequential than the Democrats’ potentially holding the Senate was unfolding: an ominous round of tech layoffs. According to internal documents, Meta (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is…

by | Oct 18, 2022

The Biden administration is kicking the tires on an oil-product export ban, a policy that would undermine the president’s own foreign affairs platform and that would fail to deliver the cost savings it promises. The Department of Energy, which in…

by | Sep 9, 2022

The dubiously named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a smorgasbord of energy subsidies, health-care policy changes, and tax reform measures, passed to laudatory acclaim from a broad Democratic and centrist coalition in August. One faction that was understandably mum, however, was…

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