Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations is still grounded in strong profits and ...

Yesterday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behaved reprehensibly. Their speeches before several hundred assembled military commanders and their senior ...

If universities hope to reclaim their essential role, they must lead again: speaking when silence tempts, teaching when slogans seduce, and remembering that genuine neutrality isn't the absence of ...

Rather than asking, "What's your p(doom)?" we should be asking, "Under what conditions does AI risk increase or decrease?" ...

“The United States is a republic, not a democracy.” This is one of those oft-repeated expressions that one hears in civil discourse whose meaning nevertheless remains somewhat fuzzy. After all, the ...

France, whose public finances have become unsustainable and whose politics have become dysfunctional, could pose an existential threat to the Euro. Being the Eurozone’s second-largest economy and ...

Except for tiny Luxembourg, the United States spends more money on education than every other OECD country and exceeds the OECD average by over 50 percent. This is not just true of absolute levels of ...

Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003, and the decline is not explained by ...

It is a truism in modern politics that ours is a system of “coequal branches.” Politicians of both parties solemnly invoke this principle all the time. We hear it even as early as civics class in ...

History suggests diffusion matters as much as invention. Unlike earlier ”general-purpose technologies” that took decades to lift growth, early evidence suggests AI’s lag may be shorter. If so, Walmart ...

“Is Academe Awash in Liberal Bias?” This is one of many recent headlines trying to grapple with a question that we’ve been debating for decades: are colleges and universities dominated by liberals?

The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History used a flier that made some pretty crazy claims about racial differences. The National Museum of African American History & ...