Big Ideas
These stories are conceptual--food for thought.
- Ignorance, the Ultimate Asset Bret Swanson 01/24/2013
- To understand the success of modern knowledge economies and why government planning is folly, we must first understand that ignorance truly is bliss.
- Competing for Elites Danjell Elgebrandt and Tino Sanandaji 01/23/2013
- The Swedish political Right has increasingly managed to recapture the support of a large segment of the chattering classes. There may be lessons for the United States.
- Voyager I at the Heliopause John Steele Gordon 01/18/2013
- An extension of human ingenuity will soon reach the farthest limit of the sun’s empire. Beyond is true interstellar space.
- The Trouble with Conspiracy Theories Lee Harris 01/12/2013
- Perhaps the problem with conspiracy theorists is not that they have gone too far, but that they haven’t quite gone far enough yet. But, if James Tracy is any indication, they are getting very close.
- The Constitution, in Text and Spirit Michael M. Rosen 01/11/2013
- Akhil Reed Amar seeks to establish a new approach to jurisprudence.
- The Politically Correct Calendar John Steele Gordon 12/24/2012
- Among the more irritating manifestations of political correctness, at least to this historian, is the attempt to replace the terms AD and BC with CE and BCE.
- Is Christmas Possible? Michael R. Strain 12/22/2012
- This question has no easy answer. It is so difficult that more than reason is required in its service.
- What Would Churchill Do? Arnold Kling 12/21/2012
- November 6 was an electoral setback dealt to those of us who believe in capitalism and limited government. What can we learn from Churchill, who was no stranger to setbacks?
- Teachers and the License Raj Andrew G. Biggs 12/12/2012
- Requiring prospective teachers to take a rigorous ‘bar exam,’ as union chief Randi Weingarten proposes, is the wrong way to recruit and assess teachers.
- The Impossibility of Rapid Energy Transitions Kenneth P. Green 12/06/2012
- Understanding energy system inertia and momentum is key to judging whether a rapid transition toward any type of energy is feasible.