Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Make the important interesting.

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.