“But it’s not right to end on a note of cultural pessimism because there is the fact...
Erik Kain
Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the contributor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.
Okay rule#1 it has to be unorthodox. No “flying” or “superhuman strength” lest I bust out my...
This time from Orson Scott Card. I second his recommendation of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
It might, in fact, make matters worse:
Google is announcing plans for a Google operating system: Google Chrome OS:
…after the leap…
I personally don’t care about Sarah Palin’s views on social issues, or that she hunted wolves from...
John Whittet offers up some good advice for debating online. The post is specific to Newsvine, but...
I think most of the books I’ve read and loved were written by conservatives or libertarians –...
“Dudes and Dudettes, …Â it’s July 2009. You are all taking this wayyyy too seriously. I wish I...
How can anti-statists reconcile themselves with protectionism? This has become a kind of stumbling block for me. ...
Fascinating piece up by Brian Doherty on “seasteading” the anti-government project being pursued by grandson of economist...
Happy (early) 4th of July!
First Reason smacks down Time here. And then here. Good stuff.
Patrick Appel responds to John Schwenkler:
This is about a twenty minute drive from my apartment. We will be roasting marshmallows and drinking...
I have to admit, I haven’t been following the dust-up between the First Thingers/ Pomocons and the...
James Joyner points to this piece by Mark Tapcott, in which he says a lot of what...
I comment on my retraction of an earlier post, here.
Megan McArdle critiques Jack Shaffer’s piece at Slate and makes some good points: