Chief interest is in the intersection between advanced technologies and individual liberty. The vast majority of my writing touches on this in one way or another.
STEPHEN GREEN: "Here we finally have a technology giving presidents the power to peer outside their protective bubble. And what do we do? We take it away amidst worries about security and lawsuits."...
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: "The Ohio House is preparing legislation aimed at making sure other Ohioans don't face the kind of government snooping that Samuel Joseph — 'Joe the Plumber' — Wurzelbacher was subjected to during the presidential campaign." The...
SUING STUDENTS over charges of racism in the classroom. "Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said the Peltz case was typical of many that come to FIRE in that they involve professors accused of racism...
RAND SIMBERG: "Want Change? Let’s Try Truly Free Markets." In her seminal book, The Future and Its Enemies, Virginia Postrel writes about the real political divide — not left versus right, but what she calls stasists versus dynamists. The former...
KEN ANDERSON ON SOMALI PIRATES: "Might piracy be a relatively easy place for the Obama administration to demonstrate its approach to use of force, multilateralism, and international law?"...