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The Overpopulation Scare Predicted Today’s Climate Hysteria

Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich’s recent appearance on CBS’s 60 Minutes reminds us what can happen when those with impressive academic credentials begin making end-of-the-world predictions. It was 1968 when Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, a book that declared with absolute certainty that “the battle to feed all of humanity is over.” Because so many people were living so close together […]

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The Cheap, Green Energy We Need Is on the Moon

Faith & Science / Lew Andrews

It’s been hard to miss the excitement since the Energy Department announced that its Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had produced a fusion reaction, which, for the first time, unleashed more power than it took to create. Using an array of 192 lasers to superheat and compress hydrogen atoms to more than 180,000,000°F, scientists managed to

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Greens Need to Make Peace with Their Historic Enemy

Culture & Economics / Lew Andrews

Today’s progressives like to imagine they’re clever when it comes to engineering a carbon-free future. Yet when we look at the record, we see green policies yielding self-defeating public backlashes. The effort by California’s legislature to ban all gas-powered vehicles by 2035, for example, has wreaked havoc on the state’s economy. It’s produced not only the nation’s

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Monopoly Public Schools Hurt More Than Education

Faith & Education / Lew Andrews

For the first time in recent memory, the state of America’s public-education system has emerged as a disruptive issue in a national election year. Whereas Democrats have traditionally been more trusted to handle K-12 schooling, a July Impact Research survey of likely voters across 62 hotly contested congressional districts found that respondents now believed, 47 to 44

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Just How “Over” Is Covid?

COVID-19, Faith & Science / Lew Andrews

For all the confusion caused by President Biden’s recent declaration that “the pandemic is over,” and the familiar sight of administration officials rushing to qualify his comment, it raises a question: where does the Covid emergency actually stand? Having gone from draconian lockdowns to a summer of travel chaos in just over two years —

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The Culture War Inside the U.S. Space Program

Faith & Science / Lew Andrews

For many, the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 (after a botched attempt earlier this week) undoubtedly seems the start of a new and exciting era in space exploration. Not only is the US finally planning to return to the Moon — this time to build a permanent outpost on the lunar surface — but

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Universal School Choice Will Transform Every Community

Faith & Economics / Lew Andrews

A new Arizona law which funds all the state’s K-12th grade children to attend a school of their family’s choosing, public or private, has been widely hailed as a landmark education reform, although evidence suggests the benefits will go far beyond academics. Studies by the Manhattan Institute, New Jersey’s E3, and Connecticut’s Yankee Institute all show that subsidizing students to use

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The Post-Covid Mental Health Crisis

COVID-19 / Lew Andrews

Recent mass shootings have reminded us of just how much gun violence has surged since Covid. The record of 45,222 Americans dying from gun-related injuries in the first year of the pandemic could well be topped in 2022, with more than 12,000 fatally shot since the end of April. Many rightly condemn progressive district attorneys in cities for failing

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The Spiritual Case for Colonizing Mars

Faith & Science / Lew Andrews

Ever since the last Apollo mission a half-century ago, the great debate among space-flight enthusiasts has been about what mankind’s next big off-world goal should be: build human settlements on the Moon or make the much longer leap to colonizing Mars. Until the past few years, the argument has been mostly academic, given the lack

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The President’s Dishonesty Will Spark an Historic Political Reversal.

Culture & Politics / Lew Andrews

Ironically, President Joe Biden’s post-election progressive turn seemed to inspire many people to reject far-left policies. Who would have guessed on the eve of Biden’s inauguration that, one year later, parents across the country would attend local school-board meetings to challenge critical race theory? Or that, sensing their constituents’ anger at progressive spending proposals like the

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