By • Apr 09,2006

Ouvrez la pomme

France recently mandated Apple to open up its iTunes technology. But the right approach is for the state to remain neutral, neither forcing companies to open their proprietary technologies to...

By • Apr 02,2006

A tale of two protests

Protests. What are they good for? Every protester thinks that they are marching in the footsteps of Martin Luther King, righteously amassing popular opinion to change the world. But in...

By • Mar 26,2006

Shhh… Don’t mention the gulag

Lost in last weekend's hubbub over the three year anniversary of the Iraq war was an anniversary from the Western hemisphere. March 18 marked the third year since the Cuban...

By • Mar 26,2006

L’Affaire Domenech

When Ben Domenech was accused (correctly) of being a serial plagiarist he called his accusers names. Within hours of resigning his plum new position as the conservative blogger for the...

By • Mar 19,2006

The real Charles Bukowski

“Hey, baby, when I write, I’m the hero of my own shit,” Charles Bukowski once told filmmaker Taylor Hackford, who was disgruntled about his appearance in one of Bukowski’s columns....