The expanding role of liquefied natural gas in the world's economy - led in part by Houston companies - is running against recent trends that have made "globalization" a dirty word, reaching across ...

Yesterday, I posted about how globalization is not about comparative advantage (the ideal) but arbitrage (the reality). Comparative advantage is taking advantage of some natural/cultural and abundant ...

Searching for the Tower of Babel in the Modern Age By the mid-'90s, some of the Urban Man's closest friends were already speaking the word "globalization" as if it had four letters. Until I was ...

Discover when globalization began, from ancient trade routes to modern economic policies, and understand its impact on global trade and cultural exchange.

Globalization is a noisy word mucking up our political discourse. A speaker or writer could mean increased trade, travel and ease of communication. In those broad parameters rest a hornet’s nest of ...

Scott Lincicome and his comrades at the Cato Institute have embarked on something rather audacious. (I can hear WFB say, “Can something be rather audacious?”) (He once said “very indigent,” then asked ...

Political "leaders" in many western nations are picking the scabs off of open ethnic/racial wounds, wooing constituents, some of whom needed little encouragement, to revert to their "tribal" biases.

Globalization, driven by new technologies and economic expansion, is underway with both positive and negative impacts. What role will the church play, and what are the implications for the ...

In May 1961 Alan Sheperd became the first American to travel to space. A new era of space exploration was opened up. In 1968 Apollo 8 orbited the moon and gave the world a very unexpected gift: we ...

Mr. Bokat-Lindell is a staff editor. This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. In a letter to shareholders last week, Larry Fink, the chief ...