Article Archive
Could California Make a Comeback?
An unexpected glimmer of hope might cast a new light on the Golden State.
Expecting the Unexpecting
Jonathan Last’s recent book gives an incisive analysis of the plummeting U.S. birth rate's key economic effects.
The Constitution, in Text and Spirit
Akhil Reed Amar seeks to establish a new approach to jurisprudence.
Will California Become a Right-to-Give State?
How the Golden State may unshackle workers from their union overlords.
Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, PC?
Free speech rights ‘for computers’—in all their glory and with all their limitations—are fundamentally derived from human activity, warts and all.
The New Textualists’ Finest Hour?
The New Textualists found a receptive audience in the separate opinion authored by Justice Ginsburg and joined, mostly, by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
Love, Happiness, and Other Things Money Can’t (Or At Least Shouldn’t) Buy
Are there limits to markets?
Pity the Progressive
Progressive pundits are befuddled, time and again, by the resilience of Americans’ faith in free enterprise. Consider Thomas Frank.
Labor’s Under-the-Radar Power Grab
A closer look at project labor agreements and their high cost to taxpayers.
Software Patents: Reform, Not Repeal
As we seek to further calibrate the delicate balance so critical to our regime of incentivizing innovation, we should reform software patents, not repeal them.
Two Cheers (at Least) for Targeted Killings
Why the Nobel Peace Prize winner is right to assassinate terrorists.
Patents Defended
Recent court rulings and a new law have reined in the excesses of the U.S. patent system.
Steal This F&$#ing Book!
A surprise best seller raises interesting questions about intellectual property in the digital age.
The Real Problem With High-Speed Rail
We’re borrowing late 21st-century money to build late 20th-century technology to benefit early 21st-century politicians.
The Real Problem with Government Employee Unions
Although collective bargaining by government employee unions may offend one’s sense of justice, what’s truly unacceptable is government labor’s stranglehold over the local, state, and federal governments with which they bargain.
Thwarting Cyber ‘Predicaments’
My wife was recently robbed at gunpoint in London. Therein lies a tale.