“Better to think of him as some sort of pagan god…than as a savior or hero,” the programmer known as Roon recently tweeted of Elon Musk. “Powerful, extraordinary, chaotic, capricious.”Indeed, Musk’s...

After 30 years as a bastion of political and economic sanity in Europe, Germany is once again approaching the kind of disaster scenario it thought it had left behind forever. An energy supply crisis,...

The last decade of US foreign and defense policy has had a late-Napoleonic quality to it. The defeat of the First French Empire wasn’t only due to Napoleon’s logistical inability to fight a war on...

The American strategist Thomas Schelling believed that on any given day, there is no issue on earth more important than nuclear weapons. Schelling might have been right, but living a normal life...