In yet another American poll guaranteed to make folks unhappy down under, Australia failed to make the list of Americans’ favorite foreign countries.  The top five were Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Japan and Israel.  But a closer look at the Gallup poll holds — slightly — better news for Oz.  They didn’t make the top […]

The meltdown of the climate change movement is entering a new phase as the European left turns on the UN climate change office and the IPCC.The German left wing press, one of the world’s strongest supporters of the ‘climate change movement’ is turning against the scientists and UN bureaucrats responsible for leading the movement.  A […]

There’s nothing like Lent for reflecting on the sins of other people; I thought I’d start at the top — with the bishops of my own church.  As the Episcopal church along with the other mainline Protestant denominations diminishes, we don’t have to look far to see bishops and leaders who are largely failing in […]

The Washington Post this morning has a strong story on the collapse of the movement to stop climate change through a binding treaty negotiated under UN auspices.  And even the normally taciturn New York Times is admitting that the resignation of the top UN climate change negotiator suggests that no global treaty will be coming […]

Some readers (like Michael Barone) were skeptical when I wrote about the coming technological revolution in American medicine and hailed it as our one chance for the kind of health care Americans really want (better, cheaper and more abundant than what we now have).But here’s a story from the New York Times that suggests that […]

Both Daniel Drezner and Daniel Larison took issue — in their customarily civil and intelligent way — with my post on the Ukrainian election.  From slightly different perspectives, they raise the same question: Ukraine just had a peaceful, democratic election.  It was even (relatively) free and fair.  So why does Mead think this is somehow […]

An editorial in today’s New York Times acknowledges something that everybody who doesn’t read the Times has known for several weeks now: sloppy work by climate scientists and the IPCC has severely dented public confidence in climate science generally, and has undermined the political prospects for government action on the issue.Climate skeptics won’t be happy […]

Two stories this morning cast some light on where the country is headed.  The news isn’t good for the upper middle class.  If you are, or you plan to be, a lawyer, a tenured university professor, a manager, an architect, a civil servant or a doctor, be afraid.  Be very, very afraid.The bell is tolling […]

This is the question that Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy magazine is asking on his blog.  You can read it for yourself here;  it makes me want to paraphrase something FDR once said when an official sent him a nasty resignation.  “Tell him to go find out from Dean Acheson how a gentleman resigns,” said […]

I know, I know, it’s a dog bites man story at this point, but today the New York Times came out with its weekly special section devoted to Science.  There was a story in there about some schoolchildren and a giant prehistoric frog, a review of some recent developments in Cretan archaelogy, a fascinating story […]