Britain’s legal system, hundreds of years old, is still breaking new ground. The British bar has just admitted to the bar 18-year old Gabrielle Turnquest as the youngest lawyer in British history. As one might expect, Turnquest was ahead of the curve from an early age, earning a college degree in psychology at the age […]

Massachusetts is blessed with a golden-egg-laying goose in its vibrant tech sector, thanks in part to wizard magnets like MIT, but the state government apparently thinks that this is one goose that would be better off cooked. The legislature has passed a new “software tax” that will make doing tech business in the state more […]

We’ve already seen commuting linked to mental illness and obesity. Now Erika Sandow of Sweden’s Umeå University, the social geographer who noted the obesity-commute link back in March, has outlined yet another reason to avoid the trip into the office altogether: commuting breaks up couples. The Atlantic reports: Sandow reached her conclusions by analyzing a unique dataset that tracked millions […]

India unveiled its first domestically produced aircraft carrier on Monday, just hours after turning on the reactor of the country’s first nuclear-powered submarine. The 850-foot, 37,500-ton INS Vikrant is built of local steel, the “crowning glory” of India’s navy, a vice admiral said.The Vikrant makes India one of five countries in the world capable of constructing an […]

There’s a real shortage of trained doctors in the United States, something that Obamacare will make even more apparent in the coming years. There are also thousands of foreign-trained doctors living in the United States who are being prevented from practicing medicine by a series of barriers erected by a medical guild system that’s attempting to […]

The BBC often provides good news coverage and analysis, but today it dropped the ball. Its coverage of the news that Israel green-lighted a series of settlements ahead of negotiations with the Palestinians is a bit misleading.Here’s the key passage, buried at the very bottom of the piece: A housing ministry spokesman told the BBC […]

I’m taking a break from my series on governance to post the source code for an agent-based model I created called Creatures.

Decadence may be an inevitable outgrowth of modernity, but it doesn’t necessarily presage decline and fall. Liberty, properly understood as based on self-discipline, is the best bulwark against social and moral decay.

Iranian-Turkish history from half a millennium ago bears important advice for the United States today.

The kosher certification industry shows us how the private sector can help the public sector handle complex but critical functions like food safety.