From the first Morning Jolt of the week:

Richest Man in the World: “Representative Democracy Is a Problem.”

Bill Gates is rapidly reaching supervillain status.

When I sat down to hear his case a few weeks ago, he didn’t evince much patience for the argument that American politicians couldn’t agree even on whether climate change is real, much less on how to combat it. “If you’re not bringing math skills to the problem,” he said with a sort of amused asperity, “then representative democracy is a problem.”

Read the article “Richest Man in the World: ‘Representative Democracy Is a Problem.’” on nationalreview.com.