Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute challenges a popular narrative about Americans’ savings for retirement. If there is any point that unites Americans in these divided times, it is…
Norman Rogers writes for the American Thinker about a key problem plaguing the case for extreme action against climate change. Climate change prophecy hangs its hat on computer climate models.…
Today’s discourse is a bit like the playground taunting I remember in elementary school: “You’re an idiot, shouts one kid.” “No, you’re the idiot,” the other kid spits back. At…
George Leef of the Martin Center writes about questionable evidence underlying the fight against microaggressions. The need to combat “microaggressions” has recently saturated America. In higher education, business, and government,…
Cristian Rodriguez writes for the Martin Center about a potential problem for the social sciences. The social sciences have a problem: If their scholars think too much alike, they will…
Ramesh Ponnuru devotes a Bloomberg column to the certainty with which liberal critics derided a group of Catholic schoolboys in a social media-inspired controversy. I’m interested in one running theme…
Thoughtful piece by syndicated columnist John Hood on the important role that evidence and data should play in making public policy. But Hood rightly points out that human nature can…
John Fund of National Review Online offers a warning to partisans on both sides of the political divide. One of the hardest things to learn in politics is that just…
Jim Geraghty offers National Review Online readers a realistic take on duplicitous Russian social media ads and their impact in the 2016 American elections. You may recall that most of…
Ben Shapiro writes at National Review Online that critics of President Trump should stop trying to decipher his “master plan.” Take, for instance, the rollout of Trump’s immigration order. Instead…
Silver says that the polls really were pretty reliable and the main problem is that some people refused to accept that Trump actually could win. Sample quote: We also received…