This originally ran at Pajamas Media. Because of the recent article "Mao's Little Helpers" at Standpoint and a current review at American Spectator, I thought there would be interest in…

Today's post is at Pajamas Media: Intellectuals by Thomas Sowell is reviewed. David Hume said, "A rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be…

Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather by Mike Smith Buy here. I met Mike Smith in 1994 or 1995 at an American Meteorological Society annual meeting.…

Read Part I, Part II. Buy the book. Last time, President Wilson had just shown the country his vision of the future. And what a vision it was! Full of…

Read Part I, Read Part III. When we left off last time, Goldberg's book was just beginning. Here's what happened in the States. Progressives in America approved heartily of Europe…