Laissez-Faire Today

Shawn Lyttle, a colleague at Spy Briefing Books, did a very dangerous thing yesterday. He shoved into my hand a little book called Three …

How much does the Internet contribute to our economic life? A lot, yes. But what if we tried to put a number on it? …

The old adage that we don’t learn from history is true enough, but it needs amendment. Governments, in particular, don’t learn from history. That’s …

So you want to see Hunger Games when it comes out on Thursday at midnight? It’s not likely that you will get the chance. …

Ah, what a weekend, with blue skies, singing birds, budding cherry blossoms and the government’s announcement that it has totalitarian control over everything. Wait, …

Anyone who read Dr. Suess’s “The Lorax” as a kid might dread the movie version. No one really needs another moralizing, hectoring lecture from …

Remember that battle over SOPA, in which the world’s largest websites beat back a congressional threat that would have changed the Internet forever? It …

Few things in life are as satisfying as a transformative and implausible reversal of history that carries with it stern justice for wrongdoing and …

The story from The Daily swept through the Internet with blazing speed. The report: Criminals around the country are stealing an inordinate number of …

Sometimes — why not now? — you just have to reflect on what an amazing man Thomas Jefferson was. I mean, he really got …