The MAGA people appear to have been laboring under a number of delusions. First, they seem to be genuinely surprised by the ...

Anthropic recently filed for IPO. At an estimated $1.5 to $2 trillion, it will be one of the biggest IPOs of all time, rivaling SpaceX, and possibly the biggest. For reference, Facebook’s valuation ...

After widespread rioting at the weekend – estimated to have cost several hundred million dollars in property damage and theft ...

Farewell to the great Patrick Stewart. And farewell also, Captain Picard. In the greatest trek of all — our search for the ...

It starts with a little bump on your neck. You notice it when your hand brushes against it while you’re washing your hair, but at first you don’t pay it much attention. Then your spouse looks at your ...

The internet runs on a bunch of code written by human beings over a period of years. Human beings are sloppy and fallible, so ...

It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas ...

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the movie You Can See Everything. A few days ago, I had the great pleasure of seeing Nathan Fielder’s new film, You Can See Everything. I’ve been a fan of ...

But leftists can be NIMBYs as well (and remember, leftists and liberals are generally different people). In various cities, concerns over gentrification, environmental preservation, and profits for ...

My most popular post at my old blog, back in 2013, was called “If you get a PhD, get an economics PhD”. People still ask me about it to this day. In that post, I categorized PhD’s into three types: ...

The economist Robert Solow died this week, at the age of 99. He was a giant in his field, reshaping macroeconomics in a million ways that we take for granted today. Although he did work in numerous ...