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July 22, 2025

Human Progress versus Climate Evangelism

In the annals of history, the first half of 2025 will be remembered for many things. I’d venture that very few are aware of one of the most momentous achievements in human history occurred in the past six months.  In fact, there is an organized effort to keep you from understanding this achievement. Before getting…

July 22, 2025

Five Figures – July 2025

Today I am starting up a new feature here at THB — Five Figures. Every month, I will share five (or so) of the most provocative, interesting, or challenging figures to have recently crossed my desk.  Five Figures adds to the features and content available to THB’s paid subscribers — which you can find here. Before making…

July 22, 2025

Europe’s Data Strategy Is Built on Wishful Thinking

The European Union is trying to engineer a digital revolution. Through its European Strategy for Data, EU officials hope to create a “single market for data,” knitting together governments, businesses, and individuals into a shared system of industrial and personal data. The goal is an innovative, sovereign digital ecosystem that can rival the United States…

July 16, 2025

Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock

Twenty-five years ago this month, Dan Sarewitz and I published a widely read and discussed article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, Breaking the Global Warming Gridlock (unpaywalled version here). Today I quote extensively from it and share both my and Dan’s perspectives on it from 2025. We invite your views as well. We began the essay with — what else…

July 16, 2025

Federal Data Consolidation: Protecting Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Event Summary On July 16, AEI’s Shane Tews introduced Palantir Technologies’ Courtney Bowman, the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Alexandra Reeve Givens, the IRS’s Daniel Werfel, and Election Security & Innovation Consulting’s Kim Wyman. Ms. Tews emphasized the critical importance of addressing cyber threats related to data access, use, and control. The discussion began by…

July 14, 2025

Precipitation Paradox?

There is a cynical trick being played by some climate activists to promote misinformation and undercut the assessments of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as they lobby for changes in energy policy. The trick goes like this: At the core of this line of reasoning is the exploitation of an apparent paradox:  How…

July 14, 2025

Do Women Owe Men an Apology? With Dr. Carole Hooven

This episode starts with a Very Special introduction in which I explain what’s been going on with the podcast over the last six months (lots of different offerings, which possibly caused some confusion) and talk about the ongoing challenges of the subscriber model. (Short version, please stick around!) I then have the great pleasure of…

July 11, 2025

Surprise! USF Decision Signals Admin Law Revolution, But Not the One We Expected

Late last month, the Supreme Court decided FCC v. Consumers Research. Although an undercard among the Court’s last-day decisions, the case was closely watched in administrative law circles as a potential vehicle for revitalizing the moribund Nondelegation Doctrine. But as predicted after oral argument, the Court found this was not the right case to do…

July 11, 2025

Common Law Evolution Is Not a Policy Proposal!

The outer edge of absurdity in the 1970s Monty Python sketch comedy show may have been “The Larch.” For no evident reason, the sketch retrains viewers on larch trees and the subject of larches. An interview with Pythons dressed as schoolboys goes into the larch question at some length, ending in a hard-to-hear introduction to…

July 10, 2025

The Science vs. the Narrative vs. the Voters: Clarifying the Public Debate Around Energy and Climate

Key Points Read the full report here. Download the crosstabs and topline here.