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…
It’s like there’s a multi-car pileup of stupid out there, in case you haven’t noticed. But this particular example, from late last week, you probably haven’t heard of. This is a local story I ran across here in Louisiana, but…
Never did I imagine that I would one day be writing about the intersection between gnosticism and canola oil, but it seems that my hand has been forced, so here we are. Permit me to explain. I was perusing the…
President Joe Biden has an energy problem. He lambasts oil and gas companies as “war profiteers” and has threatened a windfall tax on their “record profits.” It’s true that earnings are up, but we don’t have to embrace the bogeyman…
Progressives hate tax cuts. How can they stop wanting to take a bigger bite out of everyone’s paycheck when they see bigger and more intrusive government as the solution to every real and imagined problem? They will always want … MORE!!!…
“How do you know a politician is lying? His or her lips are moving.” So goes an old joke. Some cynicism about politicians is justified, particularly when they make campaign promises about what they are going to do in the…
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…
When Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his “definitive” retirement from politics last week, his armed militias and allies did what they usually do. The riots in Baghdad killed at least 30 people. Al-Sadr, after ordering his followers to leave…
Here’s how it happened. The economy was overheating in terms of prices because of big jumps in oil and gas prices, caused largely by shortages in hydrocarbons because of shutdowns in energy minerals’ production. These were caused by fantastical claims…
In recent months, governments around the world have been making unprecedented encroachments on how private actors do business, often with disastrous results. In Sri Lanka, an onerous new organic-farming regime was imposed on the nation’s producers, precipitating a serious economic…