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Before yesterdayThe Corner | National Review

U.K. Election: Farage’s Dangerous Math

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
If the first poll since Nigel Farage announced his candidacy is not an outlier, then U.K. voters should hang on to their hats. 

Honorary President of the Reform UK party Nigel Farage gestures during a press conference in London, Britain, June 3, 2024.

The War against Cars: New York’s Welcome and Unexpected (U) Turn

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
Governor Kathy Hochul has indefinitely postponed the implementation of New York’s proposed ‘congestion’ tax on drivers going into Manhattan.

Vehicles sit in a line of traffic in Manhattan, June 27, 2023.

The Costs of California’s Higher Fast-Food Minimum Wage

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
Moving away from letting the market set prices is rarely a wise move.

Imelda Rosales speaks during a rally held by California fast-food workers as they celebrate their minimum wage increase to $20 an hour during an event in Los Angeles, Calif., April 5, 2024.

Electric Vehicles: Hybrid Vigor

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The case for regarding hybrids as an essential part in any evolution of a lower-emission auto sector has again been reinforced.

Visitors walk past a BYD logo at the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition in Beijing, China, April 25, 2024.

Talking about the GOAT (Economists)

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
What better way to spend a sunny afternoon reading about economics or, better still, watching a video of two people talking about economics?

Clockwise, from left to right: Paul Samuelson, Adam Smith, Milton Friedman, and William Jevons

ESG: Exxon’s Inconvenient Shareholder Vote

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
ESG was once the flavor of the month. That was then.

The logo of Exxon Mobil Corporation is shown on a monitor above the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, December 30, 2015.

Office Property: Out of the Mony Mony

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
There are two main causes of this mess and both are rooted in ill-judged government interventions.

North view of the Manhattan skyline from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan in New York City, June 24, 2020.

Defending NATO’s East: Building a Drone ‘Wall’

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The sooner the better, I reckon. 

A newly-built large screen and a stage in the Russian town of Ivangorod, is seen from across the river, in Narva, Estonia, May 9, 2023.

Sunak’s Campaign: From Bad to Worse

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The Tory party — the party of lockdowns, net zero, penal taxation, and social-media censorship — has shown itself to be a party of the authoritarian state. 

British prime minister and Conservative Party leader Rishi Sunak holds a Q&A with the staff of a West William distribution center as part of a campaign event ahead of a general election in Ilkeston, England, May 23, 2024.

AI: To a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The story that OpenAI may have ‘borrowed’ the voice of Scarlett Johansson is not an edifying one.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, speaks during a talk at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5, 2023.

Food Police: Super Size Me Was a Convenient Fable

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
The idea of humans as helpless has, of course, been a trick deployed by prohibitionists and lesser scolds over the years.

Morgan Spurlock at McDonalds in Aspen, Colo., March 6, 2004

Red Lobster: Sunk by Shrimp (Maybe)

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
Set the rules for promotions carefully, and beware taking on unlimited liabilities.

A customer enters a Red Lobster restaurant in Alexandria, Va., May 20, 2024.

The Road to . . . Fascism?

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
A fantasy of net zero by 2050, or a market economy in 2050. Choose one.

Columbia University professor Joseph Stiglitz speaks at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 24, 2019.

Finally (Probably), a Dutch Government

By: Andrew Stuttaford · Andrew Stuttaford
That Wilders’s ascendancy owes a great deal to the EU establishment’s handling of migration, multiculturalism, and, now, environmentalism does not seem to concern Timmermans. 

Dutch politician and leader of the PVV party Geert Wilders gives a first reaction as he meets with the press in The Hague, Netherlands, November 24, 2023.
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