With Conservative Party members having chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to succeed Boris Johnson as their leader, the United Kingdom will have its third prime minister since voters decided in June 2 ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-12
As cyberattacks become more sophisticated and IT systems ever more complex, zero-trust architecture is becoming a hot topic in security. But zero-trust is not a new idea, it's a continuation of a prin ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-12
The late Nobel laureate chemist Richard Smalley was once asked to rank global challenges in order of urgency. While citing the usual concerns about poverty, hunger, conflict, and resource access, he p ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-09
The United Kingdom finally has a new prime minister, but will Liz Truss improve the dismal outlook for the British economy and political life? The conventional answer is no. As Shakespeare said, “when ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-07
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and nuclear saber rattling against the West have revived a debate about nuclear weapons. Last year, when a United Nations treaty to ban such weapons outright entered into ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-07
Delegates from over 190 countries recently gathered in Lisbon for the United Nations Ocean Conference, the most important event on this issue this year. Opening the meeting, UN Secretary-General Antón ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-06
Skyrocketing energy prices are a disaster for the European economy and its politicians. But given how feckless European energy policies have been, the economic pain they have caused should surprise no ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-05
The US dollar has been on a tear this summer. The Japanese yen and the euro have fallen to their lowest levels against the greenback in two decades; the euro, long worth more than one dollar, is now h ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
Southeast Asia’s Malay Archipelago is very far away from Ukraine, and the indigenous people of Borneo – living in some of the most pristine jungles left in the world – do not leave much of a carbon fo ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-02
An air of pessimism about the future of the American economy pervades some official circles in the United States and elsewhere. It’s time to dispel it. The pessimists worry that a series of supply sho ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
On September 6, Basic Books is publishing Slouching Towards Utopia, my economic history of the “long twentieth century” from 1870 to 2010. It is past time, I argue, that we shift our understanding of ...More
EJ Insight2022-09-01
Following US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China fired missiles into six areas surrounding Taiwan and sent fighter jets across the midline of the Taiwan Strait. Some of those mi ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
As the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, recently acknowledged, poor public-health communication and messaging throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has damaged ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-31
We have grown accustomed to grim climate news. Despite scientists’ warnings and communities’ protests, catastrophic floods, record-breaking heatwaves, devastating wildfires, and famine-inducing drough ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-30
A healthy population is both a cause and a result of economic growth and development. But achieving both today requires policymakers to leave their comfort zones. Specifically, a new generation of glo ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-29
In recent years, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, attacks on science and scientists have been escalating to an alarming degree. Health officials and the broader scientific community have p ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-26
Big movements in the prices of oil, minerals, and agricultural commodities have been among the most salient economic developments of the past couple of years. The sharp rise in commodity prices for mu ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-24
In October 2021, two tractors with a large chain stretched between them cleared more than 2,000 hectares of forest in the Brazilian Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas. Tragically, such ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-24
There is an exodus. People are leaving. We can wax lyrical all day long – “They’ll come back.”, “If we don’t get rid of the old, how would the new come in?” (a terribly instrumentalist and blasé state ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-19
When the world changes, policy paradigms change, too – or at least they should. Harvard economist Dani Rodrik recently argued that, instead of globalism, financialization, and consumption – the princi ...More
EJ Insight2022-08-19
