By • 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 • 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 • 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...

By • Feb 28,2005

The feds and your medical data

Federally mandated electronic medical records may sound wonderful, but before rushing to put a system in place, we need to consider the downsides.

By • Feb 20,2005

Problems with the property tax

The price of real estate is soaring in Northern Virginia. Condo values are up 28 percent from last year in Alexandria, where I live, and homes have more than doubled...