Romney and Trump: Saying What Needs to Be Said
What Mitt Romney’s anti-Trump speech was all about and why it matters.
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The Hugo Awards, Dinosaurs, and Me
Thoughts on Sad Puppies 3 and what the Hugos should really be about.
Yes, Net Neutrality Is Important
Imagine our roads are owned by a few large private corporations. Next, imagine that they can dictate who gets to use them and how, and they hand out preferential access to certain people and companies to curry favor, or who do them favors, or who pay them money. Your purchases from Amazon still arrive on … Read more
The Tea Party Fights The Man
The Tea Party does not have a lot of friends in Washington. Conventional wisdom–the sort of thing you hear on NPR, for example–is that the GOP has redistricted itself to death. By creating solid red districts, they’ve turned over power to the loonies on the fringe. Complementary theories include the notion that the Tea Party … Read more
The Problem of Too Much Democracy
There’s a general assumption among most Americans that democracy is a good thing and that, as a general rule, more democracy is better. With the single exception that we ought to have a Bill of Rights to carve out protections so that the majority cannot persecute the minority, reforms like direct election of Senators (before … Read more
Austrian Economist: Income Inequality Matters
I’ve been slow to get onto the income inequality bandwagon, but I try hard to let new information shape my beliefs, and since watching Richard Wilkinson’s TED talk on the issue I’ve started to change my opinion. And then along comes this interesting piece from self-described Austrian economist Roger Koppl hammering the point home: income … Read more