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  • Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin

    Eden, Utopia, and Original Sin0

    Recently I spent several days visiting my sister and her husband in their home in Western North Carolina. Both are retired, love gardening and landscaping, and as a result, have spent long and arduous hours making a mini paradise of their property. Here are flower beds, plots for growing tomatoes, zucchini, and other vegetables—this year

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  • Ectogenesis Is Close to Growing Babies in Labs

    Ectogenesis Is Close to Growing Babies in Labs0

    Ectogenesis, or artificially gestating babies, is an idea which has a perennial appeal, for good reasons and bad. The film below is a brief snapshot of Dutch research into artificial wombs, or ectogenesis. The main scientist, gynecologist Dr. Guid Oei, was interviewed by the BBC. He estimates that gestating human babies outside the womb is about

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  • Economy Surges at Record Rate as GDP Grows 33 Percent

    Economy Surges at Record Rate as GDP Grows 33 Percent0

    The U.S. economy grew by a record 33.1 percent in the third quarter of the year as employers continue to restore jobs and the country continues to feel the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. The Commerce Department figure released Wednesday reflects the rate of decline in U.S. gross domestic product during the third quarter, from

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  • Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America

    Economist: A ‘Great Reset’ is Coming to America0

    Americans have become afraid of change. That’s the seemingly counterintuitive observation of Tyler Cowen’s newly released book, The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Change. Cowen is an economics professor at George Mason University who runs perhaps the most popular economics blog in the world, Marginal Revolution. Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping

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  • Economies Do Better Under Democracy

    Economies Do Better Under Democracy0

    The tremendous economic growth of China over the last three decades has reinforced the perception that authoritarian countries can spur economic growth just as efficiently as democracies. China isn’t the only example of this. The autocratic governments of Pinochet’s Chile or Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore seem to confirm the idea that long-term economic growth are

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  • Economics Education is Returning to Schools

    Economics Education is Returning to Schools0

    Several years ago, the OECD (the organization which runs the international PISA exam) tested students in 18 countries for their financial literacy abilities. According to CNBC, “the U.S. ranked at best eighth and at worst 12th” in this financial literacy matchup. Thankfully, some American schools seem to be recognizing students’ financial literacy problem and are

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