Yesterday, on the 3rd of June 2026, Germany lost a vote for a rotating seat on the UN Security Council. It received 104 votes, short of the 127 it needed, and was beaten for the two Western Europea...

In 2024 we slaughtered 87,896,729,120 land animals for food.1 About 76 billion of them were chickens. The rest were ducks, pigs, geese, sheep, goats, turkeys and cattle, in that order. We kill arou...

Suppose that instead of taxing the wealthy, Germany simply took what they had. Not a levy or a surcharge, but the whole of it: the entire net worth of the wealthiest one percent of the country, exp...

The headlines say yes. Patriot crews shot down a Kinzhal over Kyiv on the night of May 4, 2023. Arrow-3 batteries killed Iranian ballistic missiles over Tel Aviv in April and October 2024. A pair o...

A very few weeks ago a friend of mine took his own life. I keep getting stuck on the same thing. He was the last person I would have guessed. We talk now about a loneliness epidemic, about people ...

A wind farm in Germany gets paid the price of natural gas. The wind is free. The gas is not. Germans now pay about thirty-nine and a half cents per kilowatt-hour, the highest household electricity ...

There is a kind of accelerator that funds sixteen startups, taxes the revenue of the ones that ship, hands it to the ones that don’t, forbids any of them from competing on price, and writes the arr...

Sometime in the last two years the price of intelligence fell by a factor of two hundred and eighty, and almost nobody noticed. In November 2022 it cost about twenty dollars to get a million token...

Here is a fact that should be stranger than it is. Put a healthy person in a bed and take care of their every need: food, warmth, no stress, no load. They get weaker. Not maintained at some baselin...

There’s an old engineering joke that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. It’s unfair to camels, which are superbly adapted animals, but everyone knows what it means the first time they hear...