Today was Jerome Powell's last press conference as Fed Chair. He has a few more weeks to serve as chair, after which he'll step down...

"The world belonged to optimists; pessimists were only spectators." - The Economist, capturing the philosophy of recently deceased...

Headline: "We stand united": King Charles praises US-UK ties in rare address to Congress amid political tensions Commentary: To be...

The analyst Robert Fox recounts Roger Bacon, writing in 1267, identifying what he considered the worst form of human error: "men blinde...

 Just published: Free Will Is an Illusion (I had no choice but to write this)

FDR-era programs treated coverage as a right of citizenship. You were entitled to help because you were  a citizen, not because you had made...

Hannah Arendt, on what makes political life possible: "Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is,...

Harry Frankfurt argued that what makes someone a person - rather than just a wanton creature of impulse - is the capacity to have preference...

Generating and sharing conspiracy theories — like a rain dance — gives people something to do while they wait for systems that are too opaq...

Get-rich-quick schemes are structurally similar to get-poor-quick schemes.

"Everyone we hear of is famous. Which wildly skews our sense of how probable success actually is. Of the 8 billion people on this plane...

  The Economist ’s new  statistical forecast  of the 2026 Congressional elections gives Democrats a whopping 95% chance of gaining at least ...

Thomas Jefferson deplored "the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed." And yet he believed it was better to have ...

US GDP last year: $30.5 trillion. Wealth held by top 0.1%: $24.9 trillion.

In the Defenestration of Prague, Protestants settled a religious dispute by picking up three Catholic officials and throwing them out a thir...

The Information Economy is unusually hard to condense. It has the potential to sprawl into gigabytes of observations, accounts, stories, med...

Me: I guess nobody needs a wake-up call anymore, now that everyone has a phone. Hotel desk clerk: Oh, people still need a wake-up call. They...

It is so bizarre that in 2026 we are still debating whether religion is a private or public matter. Our founding fathers would likely marvel...

Within a few years, self-driving cars will likely reach a point where "drivers" enjoy the same experience as train passengers — si...

"Will you stand for Western civilization? Will you stand for freedom, for truth, and for the God of our fathers?" JD Vance asked t...