By • Sep 15,2008

A latter-day Genghis Khan

Warmonger? Mass murderer? Evil incarnate? Yes, Hitler was all of these things, but, as Niall Ferguson says, he was also an inept colonialist, and his Reich one of the last,...

By • Sep 15,2008

Why the world won't end, part 8

Ron Bailey deconstructs the application of the precautionary principle to the Large Hadron Collider: [T]he empirical evidence is that the universe has been running trillions of these high-energy physics “experiments”...

By • Sep 15,2008

Reviewing The Anthrax Evidence

“Based upon the totality of the evidence we had gathered against him, we are confident that Dr. Ivins was the only person responsible for these attacks.” – Jeffrey Taylor, U.S....

By • Sep 13,2008

Bad Idea?

Russia’s stock market has lost 46% of its value since May, with most of the loss coming on the heels of its war in Georgia, sez the New York Times....

By • Sep 13,2008

The Party of Dave

Yglesias: …the notion that it would be okay for high-ranking public officials to have no better understanding of policy issues than does the average person is bizarre. When you get...