President Trump’s motto is “Make America Great Again.” To achieve this, we should recall what made America great in the first place. Our Founding Fathers recognized that robust property rights — both tangible and intellectual — form the cornerstone of…
It turns out that babies are good little assets to have around. Despite famed catastrophist Paul Ehrlich (still) warning of imminent population-driven “famines, pandemics, water shortages, climate disasters, resource wars,” the earth is awash in natural resources, with some experts…
Observation. Question. Hypothesis. Experiment. Analysis. Conclusion. It’s a progression we all learn in middle school — so ingrained in us that we perhaps never wonder if science was ever done differently. But, solely applying skeptical inductive reasoning to the natural…
Machines tend to take things literally. As far as your computer is concerned, the world is made of 0s and 1s and governed by algorithms. Even artificial intelligence sees and comprehends the world through a purely computational lens: ChatGPT-4 is…
Newspapers have been reporting on the demographic challenges in Asian nations like China, Japan, and South Korea. Some expect China’s population, for example, to be cut in half by 2100. If current trends continue, some of the same problems will…
The commercial space industry is set for takeoff. The small list of companies offering commercial space flights is set to grow this year, with Virgin Galactic recently announcing that it is still on track to begin commercial flights. Despite the…
Always beware of the name given to a piece of legislation. It rarely describes accurately the likely impact of enacting a bill. In fact, statutes often do the opposite of what their names suggest. Take Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s proposed…
It’s always the same scourge that afflicts adults: “you must adapt to new times.” That is what I was told the other day by the clerk at a clothing store when I asked him if they had any “normal ties”…
In this third and final article in my COVID-19/election series, four issues are covered: (1) immigration, (2) traditional education’s 19th-century model versus a distance-learning 21st century model, (3) innovation, and (4) media bias. In addition, a civil liberties/lockdown update has been…
