There’s been a lot of talk from Americans impressed by China’s rapid growth that the US needs to imitate China: spend money on high speed rail, put more government money behind planned industrial development, and step up our subsidies for green tech like solar and windmills.  Otherwise, they say, China will eat our lunch and […]

Last Friday I wrote that I was going to let the dust settle before giving my views on the results of the EU summit.  Too much was happening too quickly to make sense of it all and I wanted to let the news simmer a while before taking a view.And there was something else at […]

The good news about future US energy supplies just keeps coming.  In today’s Wall Street Journal Daniel Yergin, easily the country’s most thoughtful energy student, projects that US oil production is headed to grow by another 2 million barrels a day by 2020 — an increase of more than 50 percent in our current oil […]

The oldest purpose built house of African American Christian worship in the United States is the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill in Boston.  Built by African American craftsmen in the early 19th century, the three story building opened for worship in 1806.  During the struggle against slavery, it was a place where abolitionists and […]

The world was busy this week, and here at Via Meadia we are doing our best to keep up. Here are some highlights:An essay on 21st century Hamiltonianism, The Age of Hamilton looked at how different traditions in American politics can work together to transform our social model. The synthesis of Hamiltonianism and social democracy […]

Like everyone who checks Instapundit on a regular basis, I come across all kinds of interesting news; yesterday Glenn offered a link to this National Review Online post by David French where one learns that young unmarried evangelicals are behaving very much like other unmarried young people.  80 percent of them are sexually active, compared to […]

“Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?” asks the voice of God from out of the whirlwind in the Book of Job (38:2). This week the answer would be Newt Gingrich, whose sloppy and misleading comment that the Palestinians are an “invented” people set off predictable reactions of outrage and mockery. Where […]

What’s well known is that China keeps about two thirds of its enormous monetary reserve in US dollars.  What’s less well known is that China’s sovereign wealth fund, organized to diversify China’s portfolio into higher yielding assets, is also heavily invested in the US.In fact, according this Bloomberg report, China currently has 60 percent of […]

The long retreat of the global green movement continues, with new news about the collapse in public concern about climate in Britain.In 2007 19 percent of those asked told British pollsters that climate change was one of the most important problems in the world.  These days, despite unremitting green efforts to publicize the view that […]

The dramatic events of the last 36 hours in Europe may represent a historic turning point — or they may not.  A couple of things seem clear: the latest agreement has neither saved the euro nor resolved the standoff between Germany and France, and British diplomacy seriously miscalculated the political mood among its partners.As for […]