Woah. So überlibertarian Declan McCullagh has just left Wired News for CNET. My reality tunnel is spinning. In other news, I’ll be away at IHS’s Social Change Workshop until the evening of Friday the 21st. But Verizon swears (I’ve heard THAT before) that my phone and DSL lines will be operative by then, so my […]

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Comic Books for Grown-Ups Like many adolescent boys, I spent way too much of my time between the ages of 10 and 13 reading comic books. I followed Spider Man (in his Amazing, Spectacular, and adjectiveless manifestations), the X-Men, X-Force, Batman, Spawn, anything I could find featuring Dr. Doom, and a whole bevy of other […]

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I’ve been remiss in neglecting to mention the surprisingly fun Kalorama Blogorama, as Will Wilkinson termed it. “Surprising” only because if you’d told me in advance that a group of right-leaning political wonks who, oh yeah, spend inordinate amounts of time on the Internet, would be a blast when squeezed into a bar… well, let’s […]

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Keystone Terrorists for Keystone Cops I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry about this article on ABC News. Ok, that’s not quite right: I laughed, then felt vaguely guilty about it. Y’see, it appears that Mohammed Atta and some of his compatriots had, despite their savage hatred for things like “Western civilization,” been infected […]

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Core and Periphery Tom G. Palmer has just put up a very good and full response to the recent spate of positivist/conventionalist attacks on property rights — that is, the view that since property is a social convention both enforced and shaped by the state, there’s no coherent objection to redistribution, since there’s no such […]

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Locked in the Monkey Cage Democracy is the last sacred cow of a nation and a people that normally take great pride in shipping ’em to the slaughterhouse for Big Macs and Bruno Maglis at the first opportunity. It is, as our public high school civics books taught us, one of the things that Makes […]

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D.C. Blogfest Various D.C. cats of the bloggy persuasion will be gathering this coming Thursday (June 6) for an evening of liquor and schmoozing. It’s at Rendevous Lounge (18th Street & Kalorama) around 7pm. I’ll be there, of course, as will my colleagues Radley Balko, Gene Healy, and Brink Lindsey. Eve Tushnet and J.D. Talley […]

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New York Heatwave Reaches Farenheit 451 A clever parent recently discovered that the NY state regents exams have been making use of classic essays and other selections purged of any and all potentially “sensitive” material. This has produced such absurdities as Isaac Bashevis Singer essays with all references to Judaism excised (which is like a […]

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