Jul 17,2005
Fair search
Google Print will let you search the full text of every book ever printed--unless the law gets in the way, that is.
Jul 17,2005
Amazon’s amateur reviewers
Amazon.com opened its “doors” for business ten years ago yesterday. Its first order was for a science textbook. One might be forgiven for not knowing this–the company now sells everything...
Jul 16,2005
Valuing the vulnerable
I would like you to meet Rick Johnson. Rick is a 38-year-old man from Madison, Wisconsin. While I was a college student I had the chance to work with Rick...
Jul 11,2005
What Would Reagan Do? Lessons from the Gipper
This is the summer of our discontent. The American public is finally asking hard questions about President Bush’s stewardship of the Iraq war. Although voters share Bush’s vision of a...
Jul 10,2005
O’Connor’s wake
With Justice Sandra Day O’Connor having announced her retirement, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist rumored to be soon to follow, talk of legacies has been rampant. Some have argued that...
Jul 04,2005
The dukes of Kelo
In the very first episode of the first season of the Dukes of Hazzard, the Hazzard County Health Department threatens to close a local orphanage unless its private owners can bring...