Trump bans all foreign takeovers of big US tech companies

Trump issued an executive order yesterday explicitly stopping Broadcom, which is based in Singapore, from buying Qualcomm, in what would have been the biggest tech takeover ever, valued at $117 billion. The primary reason was that CFIUS, a Treasury Department…

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Manage water correctly and inventively and your culture and civilization will have a much better chance of flourishing. That is the central concept of this exhaustively researched and detailed book. Starting with ancient civilizations and going to the modern-day American…

The Death of Expertise, by Tom Nichols

Experts on a subject can and do make mistakes. However, they are far more right about their field of expertise than laymen. One would think this would be obvious. But it’s not. Someone who has spent decades studying their field…