I’ve always been told that art and politics don’t mix. But I’m starting to question this conventional wisdom. Sometimes politics could use more beauty and subtlety. And sometimes art could...
“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...
The Sopranos are after me. Or so it seemed in the summer of 2000, because everywhere I turned they were there. My neighborhood in Toronto, Canada was literally plastered with...
Another year, another attempt to raise the federal minimum wage. Back in late 2003, San Franciscans voted in a referendum to make low-skilled labor cost $8.50 per hour — far...
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...
Hunter S. Thompson, the journalist and author whose acerbic wit and idiosyncratic prose colored the late 1960s and early 1970s, is dead at 67. He took his own life by...
