Benjamin Zycher

Benjamin Zycher is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Pay Attention, America: Edmund Burke and the Folly of British Climate ‘Leadership’

Commentary “Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” This timeless wisdom was ...

Viewpoints January 15, 2024
Earth Day 2023: Utterly Bereft of Ideas

Commentary Earth Day fell on April 22—Lenin’s birthday, appropriately enough—so let us first recall the blessed memory of ...

Viewpoints April 25, 2023
The Energy Transition Is a Delusion Indeed

Commentary The “energy transition” continues to receive thunderous applause from all the usual Beltway suspects, an exercise in groupthink fantasy ...

Viewpoints March 31, 2023
Renewables Subsidies and the Institutionalization of Irresponsibility

Commentary The joy of spending huge amounts of tax dollars—Other People’s Money—is a truth obvious and eternal, but ...

Viewpoints October 7, 2022
President Biden Asks the Saudis to Bail Him Out

Commentary President Biden will attend the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting in Saudi Arabia next month, with the explicit goal of convincing the ...

Viewpoints June 27, 2022

Pay Attention, America: Edmund Burke and the Folly of British Climate ‘Leadership’