BOOK REVIEW: ‘If There Is No God … : The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil’

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In December 1998, Dennis Prager wrote a book titled “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual.” Nearly 26 years later, in November 2024, Mr. Prager suffered a catastrophic accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Yet as Mr. Prager revealed in his recent op-ed for The Wall Street Journal: “Tested as they were, […]

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Introducing our New (and Not-so-New) Podcast

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We’re excited to announce a new chapter for the Cornwall Alliance podcast. After several years under the title Created to Reign, the show is relaunching with a new name: Sanity Check. The change reflects something simple but important—our desire to bring clarity, reason, and careful thinking back into conversations about the environment, economics, and human flourishing. In

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AI Data Center Developers Will Finance Nuclear Energy Investment

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At a time when huge AI data center electricity demands are projected to cause domestic shortages, drive up costs and overwhelm transmission grid capacities, President Trump has a better idea; namely to have them apply ingenuity and enterprise to directly power up their own projects. During his Feb. 24 State of Union Address, the president

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The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America

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This book review was originally posted at Minding the Campus, a project of the National Association of Scholars. The title I had proposed was: “The Hobbits Go to War,” but their recommendation is better. Today also represents the very rare (unprecedented?) multiple-THB posts in one day. Sorry for flooding your in-box — but it is good

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Glyphosate, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security: A Risk Based Policy Assessment in the Context of Modern Food Systems 

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Executive Summary  Glyphosate is among the most consequential agricultural technologies introduced in the past halfcentury. Its widespread adoption has reshaped weed management, reduced tillage, stabilized yields, and lowered production costs across much of global agriculture. At the same time, glyphosate has become a focal point of public controversy, driven by hazardbased classifications, litigation, and advocacy campaigns that often

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Congress, States Probe Attempts to Mislead Judges on Climate Change

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A friend and former colleague of mine, the late Jay Lehr, Ph.D., longtime science director at The Heartland Institute, used to say with regard to environmental lawsuits, “If the law is on your side, pound the law; if the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if neither are on your side, pound the

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Climate Change and Energy: World Leaders in Turmoil

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World Leaders are in turmoil. For 30 years, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the International Energy Agency, and business and political leaders called for a shift from hydrocarbon fuels to renewable energy. Thousands of laws were enacted to try to force a net zero energy transition. But it’s now clear that green energy is unable to meet the needs of growing developing nations or support the artificial intelligence revolution in

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America’s Irreversible Goodbye to Climate Governance

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On January 7, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from 66 international organizations deemed “redundant, poorly managed, unnecessary, costly, ineffective,” or instruments of America’s adversaries. Among them are various United Nations agencies and, most significantly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the backbone of global climate governance.  During his first term, President Trump removed the U.S. from the Paris

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Democrat Governors Ignore Global Realities, Cling to “Green” Polices 

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As global corporations and governments increasingly shed ideologically driven policies that raise energy prices and undermine supply, governors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic cling to counterproductive agendas of contradiction and equivocation.  Programs that prioritize dubious environmental goals over economic growth and basic human needs have been losing support. In the U.S., the Trump administration promotes

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Nuclear is the Most Reliable Path to Affordable Electricity  

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The following is a guest article by Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaughan, and Steve Curtis. Political leaders are increasingly prioritizing affordability (without the need for subsidies) as a cornerstone of electricity policy. They are now recognizing that high costs burden households, stifle economic growth, and fuel public discontent in wealthier nations that are providing taxpayer subsidies

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