A new paper from Mercatus, citing me and the book. In fact, I used the FDA as another example of a risk-averse bureaucracy in the book.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Economic Growth
Why we need it much more than democratic socialism.
Socialists don’t understand that in order for wealth to be distributed at all, it has to be created.
Temperature And The Economy
Well, this is a twofer from Borenstein: Junk science and junk economics.
NASA Can’t Go To Mars
It’s essentially illegal. My latest column, about NASA in the movies and in real life, at USA Today.
“Space Exploration”
I hate op-eds like this. They’re meaningless.
I oppose "space exploration." It's a meaningless phrase. I favor space development.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) October 20, 2015
New NASA Human Spaceflight Rules
I have trouble caring about this, given the programmatic unlikelihood of SLS/Orion.
That Mysterious “Stalking” Russian Satellite
Reusable Mars Landers
Yes, throwing them away makes no sense. That’s Apollo-to-Mars thinking.
Creating fully reusable transportation infrastructure will be a key element of my Kickstarter report.
Trey Gowdy
“These have been among the worst weeks of my life.”
This is infuriating. There are few people whose integrity I respect more in Congress.
[Update a while later]
What we know now versus what we knew then about Benghazi.
Trump’s Immigration Policies
No, they wouldn’t have prevented 911. And no, Ben Carson, neither would have declaring oil independence.
The frightening thing, of course, is that neither of these positions are as disconnected from geopolitical reality as Obama’s remain, almost seven years into his presidency. But now we just have to hold on and survive the next fifteen months.