Commentary / World Apr 15, 2022

Germany’s energy woes are a fiasco of its own making

In both the short and the long term, Germany will be unable to end Russian gas imports without triggering economic chaos and public outrage.

Commentary / World Jan 28, 2022

Debating whether nuclear power is green energy or not

Having emerged from the anti-nuclear movement, today’s European Greens never dreamed that once-ostracized nuclear power would regain respectability as a clean alternative.

Commentary / World Dec 9, 2021

The end of free money

Rising inflation does not look to be a just a temporary problem, and supply bottlenecks are not the only cause.

Commentary / World Sep 29, 2021

A post-Merkel postmortem

While Angela Merkel pushed the SPD to the left, she vacated so much space on the right that the far-right AfD emerged to take important votes away from the CDU.

Commentary / World Jul 25, 2021

The problem with Europe’s green unilateralism

Rarely, except in wartime, have market economies been subjected to the sort of rigid central planning that the European Commission now proposes in order to curb carbon dioxide emissions.

Commentary / World Jan 20, 2021

Europe’s vaccination debacle

The slow vaccine rollout in many European countries is the result of the EU’s failure to coordinate the interests of the various member states.

Commentary / World Dec 1, 2020

A triumph of German innovation and immigration

The great advantage of BioNTech's approach is that it allows for the production of more than one billion vaccine doses within the space of just a few months.

Commentary / World Sep 27, 2020

Europe’s green state control

Apparently, the bureaucrats in Brussels think that they — and only they — know which technological pathways are best for building a sustainable future.

Commentary / World Mar 17, 2020

The world is at war

All countries should be following China in confronting the coronavirus directly with all available resources, and they should take a lesson from Germany in managing the economic fallout.