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The State-Produced Fertility Gap

Just a few weeks after our first daughter was born, we witnessed another set of would-be parents suffer a gut-wrenching loss. They too were expecting but lost their child in the seventh month of pregnancy. Continue Reading...

Why We Can’t Forget October 1956

Seventy years ago today, students at Budapest’s Technical University gathered to write their demands for freedom. They wanted uninvited Soviet troops out of Hungary and free elections with competing parties. They demanded independent courts to review political trials and called for freedom of expression and a free press. Continue Reading...

Which Came First: Macroeconomics or Your Household Budget?

This year’s Nobel award in economics is shared by two American economists, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, for their advances in macroeconomics over the course of their ongoing careers. They are credited in particular for their significant insights into the ways that microeconomic decisions—that is, decisions at the individual or firm level—drive broader macroeconomic outcomes like inflation or GDP. Continue Reading...

Fauda: Order Out of Chaos

The biggest entertainment surprise of the summer was Fauda, the Israeli espionage TV series on Netflix, whose much-anticipated fifth season is set in the aftermath of October 7 and that therefore had to deal with the massacre, the war, and the terrible human suffering since. Continue Reading...

Data Centers and Their Enemies

Ironically, it is easy for Americans to agree that political polarization is increasing. A bimodal distribution of political sentiment—with an ever-widening gap in between—has existed as part of the American political landscape for the past several decades. Continue Reading...

Is Britain Still Great?

What’s going on in the U.K.? seems to be a question on a lot of people’s minds. With the resignation of Keir Starmer and what appear to be horror stories of violent crime and uncontrolled migration, the once-great nation seems to be in a state of major decline. Continue Reading...