When I was a kid, lawn mowers worked. You pushed them and they cut grass. The grass went into the bag. Then you emptied …

In the last decade, something astonishing has happened that has escaped the attention of nearly every American citizen. In the past, and with good …

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, …

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 …

Of all social media on the Internet, LinkedIn is the least splashy. A movie will never be made about this tool. It has introduced …

What if we had the following economic system? This system would shower the globe with free goods day and night, asking nothing and giving …

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 …

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 …

I had previously heard nothing about the tragic and remarkable case of Andrew Wordes of Roswell, Ga., who set his house on fire and …

How gigantically humongous and intrusive is the federal government? A traditional measure is to look at the pages of regulations in the Federal Register, …

Do we really need an iPad 3 after it seems as if iPad 2 was released only a few months ago? Was it absolutely …

Every good dystopian story needs a villain responsible for bringing about the sad state of affairs. Half the interest in the plot concerns how …

Whatever good you have heard about The Hunger Games, the reality is more spectacular. Not only is this the literary phenom of our time, …

The final general session of the Oxford Club’s Investment University — the 14th annual and held in San Diego this year — just wrapped …

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 …

The Canadian gambling site [name had to be removed] thought it had the whole thing figured out. If you stay in Canada, use Canadian …

Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and discipline. Others are written during a moment of passionate discovery, with …

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 …