It’s a New World, and America Is Not Leading It
In the last decade, something astonishing has happened that has escaped the attention of nearly every American citizen. In the past, and with good …
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Regulators Take on the E-Book
Get this: The federal bureaucrat who last month started the litigation against Apple and book publishers for e-book pricing is the same person who, …
The Good News (for Animals) on Health Care
There’s so much bad news about health care these days. Maybe it’s time for some good news. One sector, technology, is advancing at a …
A Tool of Human Liberation
Of all social media on the Internet, LinkedIn is the least splashy. A movie will never be made about this tool. It has introduced …
Commerce, Our Benefactor
What if we had the following economic system? This system would shower the globe with free goods day and night, asking nothing and giving …
Iran and the Recurring Bad Dream
Maybe U.S. energy independence isn’t such a great thing after all. Some years ago, when the American political class was whooping it up for …
Should We Worry about the Class Divide?
Charles Murray’s new book Coming Apart has generated an incredible amount of handwringing on all sides. For those who are skilled at ignoring such …
Death by Regulation
I had previously heard nothing about the tragic and remarkable case of Andrew Wordes of Roswell, Ga., who set his house on fire and …
Market Failure? The Case of Copyright
How gigantically humongous and intrusive is the federal government? A traditional measure is to look at the pages of regulations in the Federal Register, …
Are We Oppressed by Technology?
Do we really need an iPad 3 after it seems as if iPad 2 was released only a few months ago? Was it absolutely …