Libertarian Jew

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western governments responded with one of the most sweeping sanctions regimes in modern history. At the time, I questioned whether economic sanctions would compel Vladimir Putin to change course,...

Every few years, politicians think they have found the silver bullet for solving Social Security's financial woes. This time, it is Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Moreno (R-OH) pr...

July 14 is not only Bastille Day in France, but it is also International Nonbinary People's Day, which takes place tomorrow. It was chosen as July 14 because it's the exact midpoint between International Women's Day and International Men's Day. It was created to raise global awareness about nonbinary people, but it begs an essential question: what in the world is nonbinary?

There are a number of features that make the United States a unique and exceptional country. One of those drivers of American innovation has been that it has attracted ambitious people around the world, which means having an immig...

Astronomer Carl Sagan once said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. That principle is especially relevant when the claim in question is not merely whether a military has committed wrongful acts in war, but that it has deliberately targeted children as a part of a broader strategy amounting to genocide. In both moral and legal terms, this is among the mos...