As blizzards sweep across Hell, words come of something really surprising: The New York Times is agreeing with Charles Murray—at least on some things.Two recent stories examine the death of marriage among lower income whites as well as many minorities, and the writers appear to accept the idea that children benefit from stable, two parent […]

Once the darling of the greens, wind turbines are spinning up a storm. Over in England, Sir Simon Jenkins, the chairman of the National Trust, which oversees millions of acres of protected land in the UK, came out strongly against wind energy recently, calling wind energy the least efficient form of renewable energy, and said his […]

America’s economic structure, the labor market and the American workplace have changed greatly in the last twenty years and will likely change even more in the twenty years to come. Some of these changes are unpredictable; others look baked into the cake. But as the blue social model continues to fade, the question of jobs […]

Although we are eager and ready for financial recovery here at Via Meadia and prefer to spend our time looking for four leaf clovers rather than black cats, Nouriel Roubini, the Cassandra of global markets, has made his latest prophecy, and it doesn’t bode well for world outlook. In his most recent bearish note, Roubini […]

Christopher Mead has a piece up over at New Geography that looks at the role of local chambers of commerce in the progressive era. At the birth of the blue social model, much of the impetus for key progressive reforms came from these associations of mostly local, mostly small businesses.  This comes from research he […]

When U.S. and coalition forces ejected Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait in 1991, a new American era of military power projection began. During the Cold War, America’s military became an increasingly static force, forward based around the world to deter warfare, dampen regional security competitions and contain Soviet expansion. With the collapse of the Soviet […]

The story of the week was Chinese Vice President Xi’s visit to the United States. As this next round of the Asian Game of Thrones got seriously underway, Via Meadia had ringside seats in Washington and sketched out some important takeaways from what we observed. We also noted signs of concerted push-back from China against […]

It’s always fun when new statistical research confirms something Via Meadia already believes. We’ve written earlier about the wave of poor and ignorant atheists pollsters say is sweeping America. Now come the latest Gallup findings on wellbeing, which report that religious Americans are happy Americans: Very religious Americans of all major faiths have higher overall […]

[Turkey doesn’t just stand geographically between East and West. Turkey’s attitude towards problems ranging from the Armenia-Azerbaijani dispute to the Iranian nuclear program to the conflict in Syria and many others will have major implications for how these problems unfold. Because Turkey is in a period of rapid domestic change, its behavior is not as […]

Regular readers know that Via Meadia spends more time at the opera than on Broadway, but last night we made a venture into midtown Manhattan to see “Anything Goes,” the revival of one of Cole Porter’s greatest.It was a stunner, one showstopping number after another, and when the cast broke out the tap shoes for […]