Science is systematically reducing uncertainties regarding the causes and consequences of climate change. This is critical, for it helps us identify the tradeoffs we must make. It is irresponsible and naive to pretend they don’t exist or won’t be difficult. Crafting effective solutions begins with considering two questions. First, should we care about a warming […]

In his 1967 book The New Industrial State, the late Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith opined a view that’s been accepted by “progressives” ever since: corporations exert great power over consumers. Like zombies, we are seduced into buying things we don’t (or shouldn’t) want. Galbraith asserted that markets can’t even be trusted to produce proper […]

In an earlier life I taught school in a Midwestern Rust Belt town. The economy was depressed as auto makers struggled to adjust to new realities. Through the school’s community service program, my students and I were introduced to less fortunate folks as we helped a local church prepare free hot lunches. I found the […]

Thich Nhat Hanh notes in Peace Is Every Step that “It is difficult to explain to children in the ‘overdeveloped’ nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and nourishing food…. [How can we] … assist those who need our help so much?” The material wealth of America’s average citizen astounds those […]

What is it about rising gasoline prices that causes IQs and body temperatures to converge? Or are our national politicians just behaving as usual, i.e., cravenly and cowardly? Democrats favor higher gasoline taxes and higher gasoline prices — except when gasoline prices are high. While claiming concern about rising levels of CO2, they demand gasoline […]