A group of California high school students is demonstrating the future of education with an extracurricular club they call the Paly Entrepreneurs Club. This is the kind of thing we need to see more of in schools across the country. It shouldn’t just be entrepreneurial extracurricular clubs. It should be Entrepreneurship 101, at the high school or even […]

Anti-Semitism in America has, with some notable exceptions, been limited to the laughable fringe—witness the spectacle of “crazy anti-Semitic Elmo” being carted away from Central Park. In Iran, on the other hand, out-to-lunch, looney tunes Jew hatred is the basis for mainstream, respectable socio-political analysis, as revealed in the state-run Fars News Agency: Iranian First […]

Rarely does one story monopolize coverage in nearly all news media in Turkey—the downing of a Turkish jet by Syrian forces did just that this week (Anadolu Ajansı). Less than 24 hours after the incident, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President Abdullah Gül, and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu expressed outrage at the attack, claiming that […]

Wall Street as we know it may not be long for this world—though the movement that occupied its parks has little to do with it. The New York Times reports that, despite good years for America’s investment bankers, the number of mid-level financial positions on the Street is slowly dropping as banks escape the city’s regulations, […]

We’ve been reading about Germany, where Jews and Muslims could face legal consequences for circumcising their (male) children. In Saudi Arabia, witches are getting beheaded. In Nigeria and Kenya, fanatical “Islamic” groups are murdering Christians in batches, and in Mali, they are desecrating ancient Sufi tombs.So how bad are things here?Fortunately, our blog stablemate Peter […]

Decades after the decline of the local steel industry and other manufacturing industries in upstate New York, a renaissance is changing the face of this once downtrodden region. The Economist reports: [In Buffalo] long-abandoned buildings and unused grain elevators stand along Lake Erie’s shore. General Mills is one of the few companies that still use it—the smell of […]

The New York Times reports that the generation that came of age politically during the Obama administration (18 to 24 year-olds) are much less supportive of the president than their slightly older peers. Those voters with only a dim memory of the Bush years are trending more conservative and are more skeptical about what government can do. Given […]

India’s energy shortage is getting so severe and its ramifications for the country’s future development are so great that the failure of India’s energy policy could undermine America’s new Asia grand strategy. The WSJ reports: Shortages of coal, oil and natural gas will require India to import increasing amounts of high-cost fossil fuels, say energy experts, […]

At this point, the scenario is all-too familiar. A new European country—Greece, Spain, or Italy—gets in trouble. Markets swoon. European leaders spend weeks hashing out a new rescue plan. They meet, hopelessly deadlocked. The world holds its breath until, at the last minute, the new “solution” is announced. Hallelujahs and hosannas ring. Markets recover. As […]

Lately there’s been a noticeable decline in the tone of our usually civil and interesting comments section. That’s partly because many of the recent posts have been dealing with controversial subjects (like circumcision and the relationship of religion to character), but it’s also because of among some posters towards a drift towards more ad hominem […]