by editor | Dec 5, 2019 | Weekly Update
Hungary has economic virtues along with its much-discussed vices There’s a lot to be concerned about in Hungary, currently on the outs with other members of the EU because of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s praise for “illiberal democracy,”...
by editor | Nov 14, 2019 | Weekly Update
After all, we’ve been doing it for thousands of years It would be hard to list all the advantages that cities afford us, but the short version goes like this: urban centers concentrate labor, talent, wealth and innovation in a matrix that allows all of...
by editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Weekly Update
“Foreign reference pricing” is just price controls by the backdoor The world is full of bad ideas that self-interested parties sometimes try to bring to these shores, swearing up and down they’re actually good: karaoke, kale, Neti pots, the Yugo, the...
by editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Weekly Update
But Halloween is supposed to be fun? People vanishing, dead monsters coming back to life, Winnie the Pooh in the gulag. It may sound like a misjudged Halloween special, but in fact it’s just our everyday (un)reality now thanks to the mercurial nature of...
by editor | Oct 24, 2019 | Weekly Update
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is...
by editor | Oct 17, 2019 | Weekly Update
Rare earths are just the beginning It’s no mistake that past ages of human history were named after metals. The ability to produce and use minerals has not only been the foundation of each era’s technology, but has also shaped society and...
