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Here’s Kevin Drum on trading personal information for discounts—at the supermarket and the newsstand: Today, overall supermarket prices are still the same as they’ve always been, they’re just tiered differently: those with cards pay less and those without cards pay more. So on average, consumers haven’t benefited. What’s more, competition is generally fierce in the […]

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Jacob Sullum has a piece at Reason that is, in part, a response to my Newsweek article on Rand Paul and the Civil Rights Act: Paul’s more sophisticated critics argued not that he was racist but that he was unrealistic. Given the social environment created by centuries of government-backed slavery and oppression, they said, segregation […]

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I’m going to have to side with (my friend) Ezra Klein against (our mutual friend) Conor Friedersdorf on the question of whether D.C. is somehow toxic for journalists and thinkers. Here’s the nub of his concern: But inside the world of many ideological magazines, think tanks, foundations, and other intellectual movement operations, a different dynamic […]

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You’ve probably already seen these if you follow me on Twitter but: C-SPAN taped a Hill event I did on reforming federal electronic privacy law, with Greg Nojeim of CDT and Will DeVries from Google. I had a piece up at Newsweek on Friday discussing what’s right and wrong about Rand Paul’s views on the […]

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Off her phenomenal new album The ArchAndroid.

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