Science & Technology
Innovation and its consequences.
- Subsidy-Powered Vehicles Kenneth P. Green 08/13/2012
- Even with modern technology, electric cars are not capable of satisfying consumer desires. Policymakers should end their wasteful counter-market pursuit of vehicle electrification.
- Facebook and the Importance of Being Unimportant Edward Tenner 06/04/2012
- Many companies make things you'd never discuss at a cocktail party, yet are indispensable for other things that you would.
- Science vs. PR Robert McHenry 05/11/2012
- How a piece of journeyman work is turned into patently junk science.
- Placing the American Gas Boom in Perspective Vaclav Smil 05/03/2012
- Natural gas will continue its conquest of global and national energy supplies.
- Science and the Republican Brain Lee Harris 04/30/2012
- The so-called Republican brain, with its deep resistance to yielding before mere scientific evidence, has played an indispensable role in the making of modern science, long before the emergence of the Grand Old Party.
- The EU’s Emissions Trading System: Trouble in Paradise Thomas A. Hemphill 04/19/2012
- The bloom is fading from the rose.
- Technology in America Michael Sacasas 04/13/2012
- If America’s ongoing experiment in democracy and economic freedom is to endure, we will need to think again about cultivating the necessary habits of the heart and resisting the allure of the ideology of technology.
- Technology and the Growth Imperative Bret Swanson 03/26/2012
- There’s a new argument over technology and jobs. The Obama-Krugman view emphasizes the pessimistic side. But there’s much more to the story.
- Government Is a Lousy Venture Capitalist Kenneth P. Green 02/24/2012
- While government has a legitimate and valuable role in basic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics research, it is a lousy venture capitalist and is largely incapable of picking winning technologies in the market.
- Lessons from the Shale Revolution Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger 02/22/2012
- A closer look at the shale gas story challenges both conservative and liberal policy preferences and points to much-needed reforms for today's mash of state and federal clean energy subsidies and mandates.