Opinion: Finding a silver lining in 2020
For obvious reasons, 2020 will not go down as a good year. At the same time, it has brought more scientific progress than any year in recent memory — and...
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Tyler Cowen column: Americans are failing the mask test
I sometimes refer to the COVID-19 pandemic as "the great psychometric test." We are all being placed under different kinds of strain, and we have the chance to react for...
Column: The coronavirus will create a new kind of tourist
Eventually more lockdowns will ease and public life will become somewhat safer, even though a vaccine will still be a ways off. At that point a species that has been...
Tyler Cowen: Nuclear war is still very possible and very scary
ONE OF THE most striking facts of today's world is that young people do not seem to worry very much about nuclear war. Climate change is by far the larger...
Commentary | One shutdown lesson: Americans need to save more
Now that the partial government shutdown is over, perhaps it is appropriate to consider a delicate question: Is it still OK to tell people they need to save more money?...
Tyler Cowen: Global shifts in the new year
AS 2018 COMES to a close, attention is turning to what is likely to happen in 2019. I have no idea. But if you follow these questions, you will have...