April 25, 2025
The Justice Department’s Case Against Google Should Alarm Every Business Leader
The Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google Search should set off alarms in every boardroom across the country. The case, now entering its remedies phase, signals a troubling shift in American antitrust enforcement away from protecting consumers and toward punishing business models that succeed too well. Here’s the message the DOJ is sending: If your…
April 23, 2025
What Would a US Tariff on Chips Look Like?
The US government will be “taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN”, President Donald Trump recently declared. Given his repeated promises to impose a tariff on imported chips, we must assume some action is coming. But what type, and to what end? According to trade data, the US imports around $30bn…
April 21, 2025
Silicon Valley’s Consumer Eugenics
The orchid was once an expensive, highly cultivated symbol of refinement; now, cheaper cultivars can be found in almost any grocery store. Perhaps that makes it a fitting image for a new fertility company, Orchid Health, that seeks to encourage parents to breed better children. Orchid Health is one of several Silicon Valley start-ups that…
April 21, 2025
Don’t Let the Senate Undercut U.S. Leadership In Crypto
“America First” is more than a slogan—it’s a guiding principle. For the Trump administration, it should guide policy across the board, including in the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies. With the Trump administration now working to secure American leadership in digital assets, Congress must avoid undermining progress by giving foreign competitors a regulatory edge. Like it or not,…
April 19, 2025
What a Novel-Writing Organization’s Demise Teaches Us About AI
During a recent tour for my newly released book on what Jewish tradition teaches us about artificial intelligence, the third-most common question I received—after “What’s your book about?” and “What made you write it?”—was “Did you use AI to write your book?” Each time, I would answer that third question with an unequivocal “no.” But I would…
April 15, 2025
Making DOGE Constitutional
The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon Musk and his erstwhile partner, Vivek Ramaswamy, gestured toward some of the effort’s contradictory impulses in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. “We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees,” they insisted. But “unlike government…
April 8, 2025
Does Testosterone Make Men?
Does biology determine destiny, or is society the dominant cause of masculine and feminine traits? In this spirited exchange, the psychologist Cordelia Fine and the evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven unpack the complex relationship between testosterone and human behaviour. Fine emphasises variability, flexibility and context – seeing gender as shaped by social forces as much as…
March 26, 2025
Another Day Ending in “Y,” More Meritless Lawsuits Against the Fossil Energy Producers
One would think that Republicans would know better. One would think that Republicans from an important oil- and gas-producing state would know better. One would think, or hope, that they would prioritize the economic wellbeing of their states and the livelihoods of their constituents over their narrow political ambitions. And one would be wrong. Illustrating the perverse…
February 27, 2025
Don’t Let Anyone Confuse You: There Really Are Only Two Sexes
”It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.” “‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” Those are statements from President Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal…
February 24, 2025
Why Utah’s ‘Simple’ Social Media Reform Could Set a Dangerous Privacy Precedent
The way that it is framed, you’d think that Utah’s HB418 is just a simple change to Utah’s privacy law. They are just “Data Sharing Amendments,” after all. But beneath that innocuous label lies a sweeping proposal that would make Utah the first state in the nation to require the most technically demanding and privacy invasive form…