Steve Hsu

2 weeks ago | razibkhan.com | Razib Khan |Steve Hsu

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -15:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Today Razib talks to repeat guest Steve Hsu about China, a topic with so many currently relevant dimensions gIven the PRC’s clear emergence as an economic, military and political rival to the US.

Mar 17, 2025 | thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Hugh Schofield |Lionel Shriver |Steve Hsu

The Statue of Liberty was given as a gift by France, the United States’s oldest ally, to celebrate our centennial anniversary as an independent state. Now, as the US moves toward its quarter-millennial anniversary, Member of the European Parliament Raphaël Glucksmann is asking for it back. Glucksmann said to supporters he would tell Americans that, “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.

Mar 13, 2025 | thespectator.com | Sean Thomas |Steve Hsu |Joel Kotkin |Peter Watson

I’m on a high-speed train. Forty years ago, such a statement would have been notable and specific: essentially, it meant you were in Japan or France. Nowadays, being on a high-speed train is barely a geographical indicator at all. Most of Europe has them, from Spain to Italy to Poland. Morocco has high-speed trains. Uzbekistan has high-speed trains. Even Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey, Thailand and the USA either have high-speed railways, or will have them in the next year or two.

Mar 13, 2025 | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Steve Hsu |Hamish McRae |Samuel Gregg

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s program to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) appears to be ahead of schedule. At the start of the month, the burger chain Steak ’n Shake announced that it would be frying its food in beef tallow rather than seed oils — and other major restaurant groups are following suit. This week, Kennedy, who hates seed oils and processed foods, rewarded Steak with an almighty PR stunt.

Mar 13, 2025 | thespectator.com | Steve Hsu |Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg

Before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk caused a huge controversy within the MAGA movement by advocating increased high-skill immigration. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency he wanted, for example, to expand the H-1B visa program, which many Trump supporters are against. The angry debate over the visa issue still rages on social media and both sides tend to talk past each other. The MAGA movement is against any increase in immigration, whether high- or low-skill.