The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: the political agendas…

The United States suffered through two lethal waves of contagion in the past year and a half. The first was a viral pandemic that killed about one in 500 Americans—typically, a person over 75...

The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.

The environmental group finally concedes the obvious.

Give it to Sweden’s Anders Tegnell and Johan Giesecke instead.

The last thing we need: a new and unaccountable global pandemic czar

After analyzing fluid from the lungs of patients in the recent vaping-disease epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control reported last week that every victim had traces of an additive used in mariju...

Women aren’t discriminated against in twenty-first-century America—but men increasingly are.

A biological anthropologist, she worked with colleagues to confirm for the first time that love is hard-wired in the brain.

Maskaholics are incorrigible, but the rest of us should pay them no heed.

The Real War on Science - The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress. Where are the scientists who lost their jobs or their funding?

For half a century, it’s been a term of disdain: the “throwaway society,” uttered with disgust by the environmentally enlightened. But now that their reusable tote bags are taboo at grocery stores...

Throughout the pandemic, American political and public-health leaders have been following Rahm Emanuel’s classic dictum for power-seeking officials: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”...

Government’s effort to suppress vaping—the most promising antismoking product ever created—is part of a broader scandal. Read the full article here.

In the 1980s, Fauci and Redfield sowed fear about a heterosexual epidemic that never happened.

Tobacco company stocks have plunged this year along with cigarette sales due to a new trend. Juul has now taken over more than half the e-cigarette market.

The science of romance is finding that your assessment of a potential mate shifts the longer you know the person, a process one expert calls “slow love.”

More than a century ago, Mark Twain identified two fundamental problems that would prove relevant to the Covid pandemic. “How easy it is to make people believe a lie,” he wrote, “and how hard it is...

Lockdowns were oppressive and deadly. But U.S. and WHO officials plan worse for the next pandemic.

If you’ve been vaccinated and still feel mortally threatened by the virus, please read this.

Masks make no difference in reducing the spread of Covid, according to an extensive new review.

During the Vietnam war, generals counted enemy casualties as a marker of progress. Every enemy body bag was a step towards victory, up until the war was lost. It was a poor surrogate marker that...

Liberal law enforcers shouldn't break the law to shut up climate change dissenters.

Five ways in which today’s feminist war on rape echoes the KKK’s war on rape.

A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America, by Scott W. Atlas (Bombardier Books, 328 pp., $28) How could public officials vowing to “follow the...

Windmills, solar, tidal - all a 'false hope', say Stanford PhDs

The feds tried to fix discrimination and instead created a regulatory Tower of Babel.

The pandemic has eased, but not the compulsion of many Americans to cover their faces. Fully vaccinated adults are still wearing masks on their solitary walks outdoors, and officials have been enfo...

At the university, you’re free to excuse Hamas’s atrocities, but don’t dare say anything that offends leftists.

For all its virtues, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington has never been considered a realistic film. Critics complain that Frank Capra’s movie is at once too corny and too cynical: one brave senator...

Making New York’s Airports Great Again - Port Authority mismanagement has made air travel in the metro area a Third World experience, but there’s a better way.

A new documentary film delves into the secrets of Tom Wolfe’s elite-skewering career

The COVID-19 lab leak theory was labeled "misinformation." Now it's the most plausible explanation.

New ratings reveal the good, the bad and the ugly about the intellectual diversity on 150 leading campuses.

Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, by Edward Slingerland (Little, Brown Spark, 384 pp., $29) If you ring in the New Year with a raised drink, Edward Slingerland would...

For the lockdown-weary, a brief window of hope opened after the presidential election. With Joe Biden victorious, Democratic politicians and their media allies lost their incentive to weaken Donald...

Government by unelected experts isn’t all that different from the ‘royal prerogative’ of 17th-century England, argues constitutional scholar Philip Hamburger.

This week Melinda Gates said that she is committing $1 billion to promote gender equality by doing things like dismantling “harmful gender norms.” To many people, this sounds like a wonderful idea,...

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Steven Pinker (Viking, 576 pp., $35) Steven Pinker has written the ultimate feel-good book, a celebration of human achiev...

A Nature Geoscience study finds that humanity has more time to avert dangerous man-made warming.

If you are a criminal defendant, it is far better to be a woman than a man. For the same crime, and with a similar criminal history, men in the U.S. are impr...

In a sane era, no ethics review board would allow doctors to bribe young children to undergo a treatment with unknown dangers and minuscule benefits. But medical ethics are just one more casualty of...

(Added Aug 24, 2015)Time to fess up: The 'choir' is our group singing and overdubbing on a multitrack recording. While it was hilarious to watch journalists ...

Drew Sterrett couldn’t know that when his friend slipped into his bottom bunk late one night in March of his freshman year, she was setting off a serie ...

The debate over social media’s effects on kids is far from resolved.

It’s the conventional wisdom that women are held back in science because of sexism. A new paper by a research team at Cornell University reports that young w...

Naming anything after a living politician is usually a bad idea; but this summer, we can make an exception. Now that Americans will be spending much of their vacations waiting in security lines at...

Almost 20 years ago, Helen Fisher helped revolutionize dating. She has no regrets.

To honor the legendary evolutionary theorist and biologist Edward O. Wilson, who passed away on December 26 at the age of 92, his former student Mark Moffett, pays tribute to his mentor in this...

There is little evidence to support the view that “behavior detection officers” have done much beyond inconveniencing tens of thousands of passengers a year.

A new book explores the influence the city had on the famed urbanist.

How invisible can a congressman become?

Barstool's Dave Portnoy blasted The Washington Post for its "hit piece" he and other critics say attempted to pressure business partners to pull out of his One Bite Pizza Festival.

John Tierney joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the efficacy of Covid lockdowns and mask mandates and the proper role of government in responding to natural disasters.