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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 …
The Failure of Another Dystopian Film
Every good dystopian story needs a villain responsible for bringing about the sad state of affairs. Half the interest in the plot concerns how …
Democracy Is Our Hunger Game
Whatever good you have heard about The Hunger Games, the reality is more spectacular. Not only is this the literary phenom of our time, …
Theory Comes to Life
The final general session of the Oxford Club’s Investment University — the 14th annual and held in San Diego this year — just wrapped …
Warming up to Environmentalism
I’m starting to rethink the whole environmental craze in the culture, which is about as inescapable as pop music and jeans. It was born …
No Escape From the Mark of the Beast?
The Canadian gambling site [name had to be removed] thought it had the whole thing figured out. If you stay in Canada, use Canadian …
There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Liberty
Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and discipline. Others are written during a moment of passionate discovery, with …
Mencken the Great
Shawn Lyttle, a colleague at Spy Briefing Books, did a very dangerous thing yesterday. He shoved into my hand a little book called Three …
Can We Quantify the Economic Contribution of the Internet?
How much does the Internet contribute to our economic life? A lot, yes. But what if we tried to put a number on it? …
Governments Can’t Resist
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 …
How Hunger Games Benefited From Online Piracy
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. …
What a Lovely Day for the Total State
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, …
The Lorax: An Allegory on IP
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 …
ISPs Becoming Enforcers for the State
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 …
The Mighty Return of Lard
Few things in life are as satisfying as a transformative and implausible reversal of history that carries with it stern justice for wrongdoing and …
Money Laundering
The story from The Daily swept through the Internet with blazing speed. The report: Criminals around the country are stealing an inordinate number of …
Why They Hate Free Speech
Sometimes — why not now? — you just have to reflect on what an amazing man Thomas Jefferson was. I mean, he really got …
In Defense of Homeless Hot Spots
BBH Labs is an advertising agency that specializes in new and creative ideas for marketing products. But few ideas have ever generated the heat …
Economics of the Timeline
Most of us hadn’t thought about Davy Jones of the Monkees in many years. Suddenly, he died at the age of 66 and we …
See the World Through Bonner’s Eyes
in the spring of 2012, Bill Bonner, founder of Agora Inc., took a break from his daily column in The Daily Reckoning, and, like …