The Last Untamed Creature
The Myth of the Great Leap
Through the Noise, Barely
The Paper Cathedrals of Academia
Steel Without Flesh
The Long Reckoning
The Silence of the Cradles
Contentment Is a Discipline
The Machine Will Not Save You
Never Again, Until Again
The Deadly Fear of Offending
When the Wind Changes: The Two Faces of Transformation
Do people change? Yes, they do. It happens rarely enough to be noteworthy, but it does happen. Real transformation—the kind…
The Idiot’s Mirror: Europe’s Real Problem Isn’t Two Women
Ah yes, the favorite pastime of the disillusioned masses—laying blame neatly at the feet of those two women, as if…
When Models Replace Facts: The Cult of Climate Lawfare
The lawfare doesn’t stop—it merely limps forward, wounded but not dead. The latest case may have been dismissed, and yes,…
The Bureaucratic Coup: How “Independent” Agencies Became the New Tyrants
The invention of the Independent Administrative Agency was a Godsend—for totalitarians. The moment you can legislate without legislators, you’ve found…
The Myth of “Priced-Out” America
“Pricing out American consumers?” Wow. That’s a statement that demands a reality check. Let’s have a look. The most expensive…
The Illuminated Rectangle and the Art of Saying No
In 2004 I returned to Austria from France, and with that homecoming came another decision: to exile television from my…
The Undead Barrel
Ah yes, the infamous decline rates of unconventional wells — the pet obsession of analysts who think geology writes the…
Methanumorphosis: The Mirage of Middle Eastern Diversification
Metamorphosis or Methanumorphosis? Just joking — but not really. Every time I hear the Middle East talking about “economic diversification,”…
Dead in the Water: The Sinking of the Carbon Tax Fleet
Carbon taxes have sunk to the bottom of the bureaucratic Mariana Trench, where it belongs — next to discarded ESG…