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When I last mentioned gold, almost two weeks ago, it was trading close to $4,400/oz, up quite a bit after having fallen below $4,000 in mid-July The...
As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either. I...
As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either. Writing...
I wrote last year about the way in which Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat, led her center-left party to take a tougher...
One of the reasons that Ukraine has proved so successful this year in slowing Russia’s advance in the east of the country has been the creation of a...
Long-term interest rates are, by definition, an indicator of the market’s view of an economy’s prospects, not least its vulnerability to...
Posting earlier today on the situation in the Spanish city of Ceuta, I noted that, in an editorial published in the Financial Times on August 4, it...
In an editorial published on August 4 about the recent (if largely temporary) influx of would-be migrants into the Spanish city of Ceuta, the...
Humanity’s ability to innovate has delivered a once-unimaginable level of abundance. And yet innovation has often been shadowed, slowed, or...
As grim as the news is about the United States’ missile shortfall, there are some signs that the administration is trying to change the way the...
Rich Lowry is right to warn that our shortage of munitions — specifically missiles — is not only embarrassing but dangerous. The initial focus on...
Russia's latest (as of the time of writing) mass attack on Kyiv was a brutal reminder of the consequences of Ukraine’s lack of anti-ballistic...
I wrote the other day about the concern that Europe’s LNG (liquefied natural gas) reserves are lower than they should be at this time of year:...
Yes, yes, American politicians talk about the scourge of higher prices. Only yesterday, Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump was on the warpath about the...
Insult a company enough, tax a company enough, inhibit a company’s business enough, and it will go. BP, a pioneer in offshore oil production, has...
I am old enough to remember when Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-left prime minister, was being described by overexcited Gutmenschen as Europe’s...
As debate rages about responsibility for the massive influx of illegal immigrants into Ceuta, a Spanish city on the North African coast, defenders of...
H.R. 8595 is better known as the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 2027. It passed in the House on a...
The dramatic (and, for now, largely reversed) migrant incursion into Ceuta has focused attention on a city that is not that often in the spotlight....
Posting earlier today, Mark Krikorian records the latest chapter in the immigration disaster unleashed by Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s hard-left prime...
Having made the mistake of relying on nice Mr. Putin’s “cheap” natural gas for years, one key reason (perhaps the key reason) that Europe was...
On Saturday night, Abdul Ballout crashed his car into crowds that were celebrating Berlin’s annual LGBT Pride festival, killing one attendee. Using...
After the Supreme Court struck down tariffs introduced under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the president responded by announcing a...
Hasan Piker, the leftist influencer, has millions of followers across Twitch, YouTube, and other platforms. And so it is not without interest that he...
The launch of its Kimi K3 AI model by Moonshot, an early-stage Chinese AI company, is yet another reminder, as if one were needed, that the AI race...
Humanity’s ability to exploit space, especially (for now) in near-Earth orbit, is rapidly increasing. And where one country gains an advantage,...
Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, has become the Labour Party’s new leader and is set to become Britain’s prime minister on...
Protests are continuing in Ukraine over the decision by President Zelensky to fire Mykhailo Federov, his popular (too popular?) and effective defense...
In what looks like a colossal blunder, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has forced out the country’s popular Defense Minister Mykhailo...
For reasons that need no explanation, the European defense sector is attracting more and more investment. Once, in another era, there was a brief...
Russia’s mass air attacks on Ukrainian cities have recently been carried out by a mix of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. To shoot...
With characteristic subtlety Moscow has launched another attack on Kyiv just ahead of the NATO summit. At the time of writing seven people had been...
More details are coming in about the number of applications filed by illegal immigrants looking to “regularize” their residence in Spain under the...
One of the many problems of rent controls (at least for those without an expropriatory agenda) is their effect on the value of rental buildings. This...
Back in January, Spain’s leftist government announced that it was going to offer illegal migrants in the country the chance to regularize their...
Here’s another dispatch from the AC wars, this time from the Flemish philosopher, Maarten Boudry. It’s all worth reading, but here are some...
Europe’s struggles with air conditioning appear to have taken a hierarchical turn at its headquarters in Brussels’ Berlaymont building, The...
As Europe's heat wave persists, the debate over air-conditioning rages on. The New York Times notes that the populist right has weighed in (in...
One person who would have been astonished by the fight over air conditioning would have been Lee Kuan Yew, the man who more than any other individual...
With a good part of Europe baking in the heat, the transatlantic air-conditioning debate has erupted again, at least on X. Some of the American...
Big Climate has long warned that climate change was going to heat the planet up. Fine, but there is plenty of room for disagreement about the extent...
HALE is the cleverly appropriate acronym for Heath-Adjusted Life Expectancy, a fancy way of saying how many years people can live in good health. As I...
It didn’t take a recent trip to Ukraine (primarily Kyiv and Kharkiv) to convince me that the outcome of the Russo-Ukrainian war may well hinge on...
The destructive investment “discipline” better known as ESG is too valuable to the political, financial, and economic ecosystem it feeds for its...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to step down in September. When an authoritarian loses authority within his own party, it is time to go, and so...
Britain’s retreat from free speech has been going on for decades. But the pace of its state-backed muzzling of opinion has picked up in recent...
To say that that many Britons are unhappy with the scale of immigration into their country is an understatement. Not traditionally a country of mass...
One of the (many) reasons that central planning fails is because of the difficulty of forecasting the countless consequences of some event,...
Climate policy is for governments, not C-suites, so the following should not be any kind of dilemma. The deep divide in how major economies are...
I’m old enough to remember when Bernie Sanders proposed a moratorium on the construction of data centers. The Hill, March 25, 2026: Sen. Bernie...
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