Articles by Michael M. Rosen
- A Roundup: Myriad, Monsanto, and the Supreme Court Tuesday, June 18, 2013
- In recent rulings on patents, the Supreme Court spoke with a rare, single voice, devising a framework that encourages innovation while also ensuring that its ...
- Austerity and Its Discontents Wednesday, May 29, 2013
- After a period of pushback, proponents of austerity are retaking the intellectual high ground and promoting responsible budgeting throughout the developed ...
- Could California Make a Comeback? Wednesday, May 15, 2013
- An unexpected glimmer of hope might cast a new light on the Golden State.
- Expecting the Unexpecting Monday, March 25, 2013
- Jonathan Last’s recent book gives an incisive analysis of the plummeting U.S. birth rate's key economic effects.
- Greens’ Irrational Fear Flies Again Wednesday, February 20, 2013
- A closer look at environmentalists’ hatred of air travel.
- The Constitution, in Text and Spirit Friday, January 11, 2013
- Akhil Reed Amar seeks to establish a new approach to jurisprudence.
- Are We Doomed No Matter Who Wins? Monday, November 5, 2012
- At first glance it certainly appears that way.
- Will California Become a Right-to-Give State? Thursday, September 27, 2012
- How the Golden State may unshackle workers from their union overlords.
- Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee, PC? Monday, August 20, 2012
- 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? Thursday, June 28, 2012
- The New Textualists found a receptive audience in the separate opinion authored by Justice Ginsburg and joined, mostly, by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and ...
- Love, Happiness, and Other Things Money Can’t (Or At Least Shouldn’t) Buy Friday, June 22, 2012
- Are there limits to markets?
- Tyrannosaurus Ecs Thursday, May 10, 2012
- Liberals, economic illiteracy, and The Tyranny of Clichés.
- Lights, Camera, Crazy! Friday, April 20, 2012
- We have much to fear from our dysfunctional regime of higher education.
- Pity the Progressive Friday, March 23, 2012
- 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 Tuesday, February 21, 2012
- A closer look at project labor agreements and their high cost to taxpayers.
- Software Patents: Reform, Not Repeal Friday, December 9, 2011
- 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 Friday, October 14, 2011
- Why the Nobel Peace Prize winner is right to assassinate terrorists.
- Patents Defended Monday, September 12, 2011
- Recent court rulings and a new law have reined in the excesses of the U.S. patent system.
- Steal This F&$#ing Book! Monday, June 6, 2011
- A surprise best seller raises interesting questions about intellectual property in the digital age.
- The Real Problem With High-Speed Rail Wednesday, March 23, 2011
- 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 Friday, February 25, 2011
- Although collective bargaining by government employee unions may offend one’s sense of justice, what’s truly unacceptable is government labor’s stranglehold ...
- Thwarting Cyber ‘Predicaments’ Friday, June 25, 2010
- My wife was recently robbed at gunpoint in London. Therein lies a tale.
- Ripped Off? Thursday, December 10, 2009
- Is the wired generation revolutionizing or undermining music?
- The Transformers at the Supreme Court? Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- The Supreme Court’s examination of Bilski this summer will not be quite as big a blockbuster as “Transformers,” but in the world of patents and technology, it ...
- Twitter Takes Tehran Thursday, June 18, 2009
- As the mullahs have increasingly restricted the freedom of Western and Iranian journalists—essentially forbidding them from covering the ...
- First State Follies Tuesday, October 14, 2008
- Joe Biden has long supported Delaware’s curious combination of corporate welfare and social welfare.
- When Patents Get Political Friday, June 20, 2008
- In general, the stalled patent reform debate pits hardware and software firms against pharma and biotech companies.