So, Will’s right that most of the libertarians quoted in this TAP article are friends. But I think Virginia Postrel’s a little hard on it as a result: Whatever you want to say about the sourcing of this particular piece, I’ve heard similar sentiments expressed by plenty of libertarians who I don’t know socially. There […]

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Aussie researchers are developing a form of male birth control that clinical trials so far are reporting is “100 percent effective.” The FDA had better not sit on this one, or they’re apt to have several million angry guys marching through D.C. After all, it’s clear that this would have plenty of secondary health benefits […]

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I think the headline says it all, but you can read the article too if you’re curious.

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I was just talking with my father, who came to the U.S. from Spain in the early 70s, about the California election. He found it amazing, remarkable, that an immigrant with a heavy foreign accent would be elected governor of the country’s most populous state. Not only that, but it seems not to have been […]

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If only this weren’t a spoof…

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So as regular readers of this blog have probably divined, I devoted the bulk of my academic energies as an NYU undergrad to thinking about moral and political philosophy. But you don’t spend that much time in such a relentlessly analytic, technical department without cultivating a certain capacity to take glee in some rather more […]

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…sounds like a good name for an all-girl punk band, but actually I’m referring to this London Review of Books article about Fred’s devoted sibling Elizabeth. I had known that she was largely responsible for his (perfectly nonsensical if you read him carefully) appropriation by the Nazis; I hadn’t known precisely how nuts she really […]

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Since my punditry is largely being channeled through Hit and Run these days, I suppose I may as well resort to a personal update… Friday I finally met up with fellow cracker-lookin’ D.C. hispanic Matthew Yglesias (also now a fellow blogger-cum-political-journalist with TAP) for some beverages and good conversation. Then, in a throwback to my […]

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I envy the amount of free time Andrew Chamberlain obviously has: He’s got a lengthy game theoretic analysis of the strategic interaction involved with keeping your blinds open or closed.

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You know I’m getting lazy when I don’t even link new Reason articles until a few days after they’re posted… the latest is a look at the political tendencies of Millennials.

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