JOURNALISM
After Crypto’s Cold Winter, Expect Springtime for Web 3.0
Long-run financial history suggests that negative interest rates are not unusual and that DeFi is a bona fide revolution.
China's Covid Victory Over America Turns Out to Be Pyrrhic
The pandemic has revealed Americans to be tacit Social Darwinists, while trapping the Chinese in a vast Panopticon.
Putin’s Ukrainian War Is About Making Vladimir Great Again
Current conditions are ideal for a Russian invasion, but the historical inspiration is more tsarist than Soviet.
Global Democracy Is Doing Fine. U.S. Democracy Is in Trouble.
Foreign rivals hypocritically echo Americans’ own fears about racism and Trumpism, but the real malaise is bipartisan.
Omicron Sounds the Death Knell for Globalization 2.0
On top of an intensifying cold war between the U.S. and China and other seismic changes, the rapid spread of Covid-19’s newest variant could finish off our most recent phase of global integration.
Employers Are Hiring. Why Are So Many Workers Holding Back?
The U.S. labor market is caught between a pandemic that isn’t quite over and an inflation surge that’s gathering steam.
I'm Helping to Start a New College Because Higher Ed Is Broken
Institutions dedicated to the search for truth have ossified into havens for liberal intolerance and administrative overreach.
Climate Promises Cost Nothing. Change Will Cost a Fortune.
Glasgow translates as “dear green place.” At COP26, they’ll find that going green is dear indeed.
Blind to History, Facebook Is in the Trustbusters’ Crosshairs
I tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg that he risked becoming part Rockefeller, part Hearst. But the rest of us don’t have a good solution for what his platform has become.