Author: AF Editors

By AF Editors • Mar 27,2005

An Easter reflection on life and death

That so many think it is fine to let Terri Schiavo die shows that Pope John Paul II was painfully correct when he diagnosed our society as afflicted with a...

By AF Editors • Mar 27,2005

Hear no evil, see no evil, file-share no evil?

Last year the Ninth Circuit accepted Grokster's argument that because it has no knowledge of what files are traded and no ability to filter them, it cannot be held liable...

By AF Editors • Mar 20,2005

Could you pull the plug?

“If I ever get like that, I don’t want to be kept alive. I want you to pull the plug.” My mother has told me that on more than one...

By AF Editors • Mar 13,2005

Dreaming of DRM

Digital rights management technologies may yet prove an effective piracy deterrent, and companies should be free to deploy them. But requiring customers to comply with them on pain of criminal...

By AF Editors • Mar 06,2005

Iranians for Bush

Iranians, connected to the outside world by satellite dishes and the Internet, are now pro-American, but they won't be if the U.S. intervenes militarily.

By AF Editors • Feb 28,2005

Imagine there’s no countries

Free trade, to the degree it means the right to dispose of your own property as you wish, is a pro-freedom idea. "Free trade," when it involves international bodies and...