Wonder Information Tag

My interview with Tunku Varadarajan in the Wall Street Journal: “Science” has become a political catchword. “I believe in science,” Joe Biden tweeted six days before he was elected president. “Donald Trump doesn’t. It’s that simple, folks.” But what does it mean to believe in science? The British science writer Matt Ridley...

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from Thomas Sowell’s March 27th, 1984, letter to a Mr. Ford, as this letter appears on pages 204-206 of Sowell’s 2007 collection, A Man of Letters: Most black youngsters do not have parents who can hire them in the family business or...

(Don Boudreaux) TweetUber and other ride-sharing services save thousands of lives. Brad Polumbo reports. A slice: A study by two economists at the University of California, Berkeley examined the impact that Uber, specifically, has had on alcohol-related traffic deaths and total traffic deaths in the US....

(Don Boudreaux) TweetTodd Zywicki, my friend and GMU colleague over in the law school, explains in today’s Wall Street Journal why he’s suing GMU officials over their vaccine mandate. Here’s his conclusion: If I were not already naturally immune to Covid, I would have long ago...