The Cost of Politicizing Science

From The Wall Street Journal, How Science Lost the Public’s Trust, by Tunku Varadarajan: The politicization of science leads to a loss of confidence in science as an institution. The distrust may be justified but leaves a vacuum, often filled by a “much more...

Framing Speculation as Proof

From The Wall Street Journal, How Science Lost the Public’s Trust, by Tunku Varadarajan: He asks: “If you think biological complexity can come about through unplanned emergence and not need an intelligent designer, then why would you think human society needs an...

The Catastrophe of Student Debt

From today’s Wall Street Journal, an interview with George Gilder, Sage in the Machine by Tunku Varadarajan America’s university system, says Mr. Gilder, is “incredibly corrupt and ideological.” How did it come to be like that? Surely, I observe, it wasn’t that...