America’s Lysenko

Feature Article by , February 10, 2014

The global warming hysteria is disastrous enough in its intended goal, which is to ban the use of our cheapest and most abundant fuels and force us to limp along on “alternative energy” sources that are insufficient to support an industrial civilization. But along the way, the global warming campaign is already wrecking our science […]

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Among the Olympians

Feature Article by , February 7, 2014

A few months ago, I had a conversation with someone who repeated an old cliché: the idea that heroic portrayals of idealized human figures are reminiscent of Nazi art, with its emphasis on the chiseled physiques and square jaws of young blonde men. Unfortunately, the person who told me this was someone connected to the […]

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The Wolves of State Street

Feature Article by , January 23, 2014

President Obama has declared that he will devote the rest of his presidency to fighting the scourge of economic “inequality.” Which is proof that after five years of claiming that they were going to “pivot to jobs” as a top priority any day now—through years of high, persistent, long-term unemployment—the Obama administration has given up. […]

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What Is a Normal Temperature?

Feature Article by , January 20, 2014

Last week, I wrote about how the record cold temperatures of the polar vortex and impenetrable ice in the Antarctic are being cited as evidence in favor of global warming. That makes global warming an “unfalsifiable” theory in the sense that any evidence against it will be reinterpreted ad hoc as evidence for it. After […]

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The Paradox of Sense of Life

Feature Article by , January 15, 2014

How to Achieve a Benevolent Sense of Life, Part 4 This is part four of a five-part series. Many years ago, I was at a point in my career when I had stuck my neck out to take a stand on principle, under conditions that I knew could be bad for my career and my […]

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Freezing Is the New Warming

Feature Article by , January 11, 2014

This is looking like another bad year for global warming. The year began with the news that an Australian “climate researcher” leading a tourist expedition to Antarctica got his ship trapped in the sea ice. Which is embarrassing, because the purpose of his expedition was to study the melting of sea ice supposedly caused by […]

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The Year of ‘We Told You So’

Feature Article by , January 9, 2014

This is going to be the year of “we told you so.” It is the year in which all the disasters predicted by President Obama’s critics come true. It is the year in which the consequences of the president’s policies, which were staved off just long enough to permit his re-election, come crashing down on […]

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Radical New York City Democrats

Feature Article by , December 31, 2013

Three Paradoxes of American Politics, Part 4 After the 2012 election, I posed three paradoxes of American politics, asking why certain demographic groups make up reliable voting blocs for the left, even though the pro-free-market ideas of the right have so much to offer them. I have been addressing these paradoxes one by one, from […]

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Politics Is Interesting

Announcement by , December 29, 2013

Annual Report from The Tracinski Letter Last year, I published the first annual report for The Tracinski Letter, looking back at what the newsletter had accomplished over the previous year and setting out plans for the new year. 2012 was a year of big transitions for the logistics of the newsletter, with a new name […]

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We Told You So

Feature Article by , December 27, 2013

Top Stories of the Year: #1 There’s no drum roll for the unveiling of the #1 top story of 2013: the spectacular collapse of ObamaCare. It’s a story so big there’s no suspense about anything else coming close. We had to wait three and a half years from the time it was passed for ObamaCare […]

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