Explosions of Creativity
Peter Thiel is a legend of the digital revolution.
Born in Germany in 1967, he was moved to California as a toddler, and showed early signs of intellectual gifts by becoming ...
The IRS and the Tea Party
The principle involved in the recent IRS scandal appears to be that every group with an interest in twisting the electoral process to its own advantage is exempted; only those ...
Obamacare and Cronyism
Once upon a time, there was a theory of government called “interest-group liberalism,” which held that a workable American democracy could be based on an infinite number of special interests’ ...
Signal over Noise
Don’t sit down with George Gilder’s Knowledge and Power with the idea that you are about to read a book. You are entering into an evening of rambling discussion with ...
A Cardboard Cutout of a Caucus
The IRS’s targeting of conservative groups raises many questions.
Mine is: “Where the heck was the Congressional Tea Party Caucus while this was going on?”
The answer is: “Nowhere.” And the obvious ...
Myths and Facts about Copyright
Progressive academics and libertarian-oriented conservatives have found an area of harmony: bashing the conservative Republican Study Committee in the House over copyright law.
Two weeks ago, an RSC staffer wrote and ...
Culture Clash
Lee Harris always has interesting things to say. He first came to general attention with his 2002 essay in Policy Review titled “Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology: War Without Clausewitz,” in ...
The Problem with Zero
Chris Anderson is the editor of Wired, the glossy Condé Nast tech magazine, and the author of an earlier book on the Internet called The Long Tail, so he is ...
Black and White and Dead All Over
The American Society of Newspaper Editors canceled its April convention, explaining that “the challenges editors face at their newspapers demand their full attention.”
It seems likely that the event would have ...