What Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming?
Dr. Nir Shaviv, Chair of the Racah Institute of Physics of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, giving a talk on global warming at the George Marshall Institute on March 21, … Read More
Month: April 2017
Thomas Piketty and The Iron Law of Wages
Like-minded thinkers: Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 — 29 December 1834), English cleric, scholar, and economist; and Thomas Piketty (7 May 1971 — ), French economist Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons / … Read More
The French Elite Is Snubbed
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, winners of the April 23, 2017 first round of the French presidential election, will face off in the second round on May 7, 2017. … Read More
Does the Populist Revolt of the West Against Its Elites Continue?
The major French presidential candidates for 2017. From Left to Right: Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Communist (Wikimedia Commons / MathieuMD), Emmanuel Macron, Center-Left En Marche! movement (Wikimedia Commons / Ecole polytechnique Université Paris), François … Read More
Anti-AGW Global Warming Scholarly References
Different terrestrial environments involved with or affected by global warming. Over on my Facebook group A Divided World Readers, one reader complained I did not give a single scholarly reference to … Read More
U.S. Railgun Systems Proliferate
Railgun projectile bursting through a metal plate in a Navy test system. The projectile is the dark metal bar in the center-right of the image. Image courtesy of the Office … Read More
The Complexity of Atmospheric Physics
View of the crescent moon through the top of the earth’s atmosphere, as seen from the International Space Station. The photo was taken over the South China Sea, just south … Read More
The Human Development Index and Economic Freedom
Wikimedia Commons / User Happenstance Recently, I learned about a figure of merit for countries being promoted by the United Nations that blends economic data with statistics related to the … Read More
Lessons From The Developing World
An Indian plowman in West Bengal working in India’s largest industry: Agriculture Wikimedia Commons / ILRI In my last two posts, I have taken looks at the history of leftist … Read More
More Historical Lessons From Europe
GDP per capita in Europe in 2014. According to the World Bank, the U.S. GDP per capita in the same year was $54,540. Wikimedia Commons In this post, I will continue my … Read More