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November 14, 2025
Australia Wishes for Cloud Data Storage for Christmas
On November 6, Reuters reported that Google was planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean territory—Christmas Island—after signing a deal with the Australian Department of Defense earlier this year. Reportedly, Reuters had reviewed documents and interviewed officials related to this plan. The specifics of the data center and other…
November 13, 2025
The App Store Freedom Act Would Hurt Those It Claims to Protect
It has become popular in both parties to believe that the government should be in the business of being in business. From Democrats proposing city-run grocery stores to Republicans buying stakes in steel mills and computer chip makers, the trend is bipartisan—and sets a dangerous precedent. The latest example? The deceptively named App Store Freedom…
November 12, 2025
When Less Warming Means More Fear
Something curious is going on in the world of climate advocacy. As THB readers know, projected future carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion have been consistently revised downward in recent years, resulting in less projected warming. Yet rather than acknowledge this encouraging development, climate campaigners have shifted the goalposts by lowering the threshold of what they…
November 12, 2025
Comment Submitted to the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Summary: BLM proposes “to rescind” the 2024 final “Conservation and Landscape Health Rule” adopted on May 9, 2024. Despite the promise in the 2024 final rule that it “defines the term ‘ecosystem resilience,’” no such definition actually is presented in the 2024 final rule. Instead, there are numerous references to such concepts as ecosystem health,…
November 12, 2025
Fourth Amendment Doctrine vs. Textualism
The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I believe I know where the law is headed. We should and will use the text of the Fourth Amendment to interpret it. Stanford Law Professor…
November 10, 2025
Analyzing the Charter-Cox Merger
Earlier this year, Charter Communications, Inc. and Cox Communications announced a $34.5 billion proposed merger. If completed, the combined company would become both the largest cable television provider and the largest broadband provider in the country. At first glance, one might be concerned about a proposal to merge the second and third-largest cable providers into…
November 10, 2025
Low Earth Orbit Satellites Are Taking Off. Governments Need to Catch Up.
Satellite communications used to be the domain of weather forecasters, cable providers, and aerospace engineers. That changed when Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites came along—and when Elon Musk decided to launch thousands of them into space. Now, satellite broadband is no longer a technological curiosity. It’s an emerging infrastructure option with global implications for connectivity,…
November 7, 2025
Good Reads
My fall university tour continues with a visit to Johns Hopkins this week, Cornell next week, and the University of Wyoming on November 19. If you are local please come and say Hello, and a few of my talks will be live-streamed and/or recorded. In addition, I’ll be posting on some of my lectures. Today, I share some great…
November 6, 2025
The Global Population Crisis that Never Was
Thomas Malthus was a fan of pandemics. Writing in 1798 in his famous treatise on population growth, Malthus encouraged the spread of fatal diseases: “Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits.” He criticized “benevolent, but much mistaken men” who were seeking to eliminate fatal diseases, rather than see them as a way…
November 5, 2025
Will Wyoming Be the Token Seizure State?
We throw rocks in the stream, hoping to move the flow to a better channel. That’s one metaphor for what we do in public policy analysis and commentary. I have some boulders for you, Wyoming, and a shiny stone you might find attractive. The world of digital form-factor US dollars is not divided between private…