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October 25, 2024
Cybersecurity Concerns with QR Codes: Staying Safe in the Digital Age
Quick Response (QR) codes, those black and white squares whose popularity surged with the rise of contactless interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, from restaurant menus to parking meters, have become a convenient shortcut in our digital world. These codes now offer a simple way to access information with a quick scan from your smartphone. However,…
October 25, 2024
TikTok’s No Good, Very Bad Day in Court
Last month, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, which tests the constitutionality of a federal law that would ban the popular social media platform from app stores early next year unless its Chinese-affiliated parent company divests ownership. While seasoned lawyers caution against predicting decisions based on oral…
October 25, 2024
The Clean Energy Transition’s Voter Problem
The future of the clean energy transition is cloudy. It’s well-known that there are disagreements—wide disagreements—between Republicans and Democrats about our energy future. But less well-known is the bedrock of public opinion on America’s energy supply, the importance of a rapid transition away from fossil fuels, and the general salience of the climate change issue….
October 24, 2024
Progress and Its Enemies
26 years ago, Virginia Postrel published The Future and Its Enemies, which I still consider one of the most insightful books of our time. The book’s subtitle, The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress, has become even more relevant since 1998. Virginia gave a presentation on the ideas in her book at the Progress Conference in Berkeley last…
October 24, 2024
Climate Journalism Done Right
Today, The Washington Post has published a lengthy analysis titled, “The real reason billion-dollar disasters like Hurricane Helene are growing more common.”1 The article, by the Post’s Harry Stevens, is brilliantly done — extensively reported, data rich, grounded in a large body of research, with a wide diversity of voices. Watching reactions to the article will…
October 23, 2024
Both Harris and Trump Pose Problems for U.S. Energy Producers.
AEI Scholar Benjamin Zycher contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Regulatory Policy Experts: Both Harris and Trump Threaten Constraints on Innovation, as a group of experts outlined the many ways in which either potential administration’s understanding of how regulation of technology can impede innovation and threaten America’s dominance in that sector. Below is a section from Benjamin Zycher’s contribution. For…
October 23, 2024
What Happens in Europe Does Not Stay There
U.S. climate policies, designed to yield a utopia of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by, say, 2050, are preposterous. The costs are massive. Consumer resistance is such that important components of the policy agenda are already collapsing. The metastasizing system of financial regulations imposing penalties upon the fossil energy sector is unlikely to survive judicial scrutiny. And for what? Even if implemented fully, the entire…
October 23, 2024
The Benefits of Playing Small Ball and Other Observations About Social Media Litigation at the Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court’s 2024 rulings involving social media platforms and First Amendment issues provided fodder for earlier posts drilling into matters such as the right to listenand Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s prominent role as a tech-savvy jurist. This post, concluding my review of Lindke v. Freed, Murthy v. Missouri, and Moody v. NetChoice, offers three observations. The Benefits of Playing Small…
October 21, 2024
Why Western North Carolina Spurned Flood Control Measures Decades Ago
The July 17, 1916, edition of The Asheville Citizen could have easily been reprinted late last month and maintained its relevance: “Asheville today is absolutely isolated from the outside world, is a city of darkness void of ordinary transportation facilities, and finds herself helpless in the grasp of the most terrible flood conditions ever known here.” Both Hurricane…
October 21, 2024
The Future of Small Business Financing
Small businesses are the foundation of the US economy, representing 99 percent of all firms and employing nearly half of the private sector workforce. In 2021, these enterprises generated over $16.2 trillion in revenue. Beyond their economic impact, small businesses play a vital role in shaping neighborhoods and communities across the country. Despite their significance, many small…