Please Exploit My Father (In Defense of Price Gouging)
Laws against price gouging don’t help the public during major disasters. In fact, they make the situation worse.
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Letter From The Editor: On Commenting Culture
Thank you for reading and participating. There are some changes afoot.
Letter From The Editor: Turning Off Features
Likely turning off Commenter Archives and maybe State of the Discussion for a couple of weeks.
How Dare You People: Joel Osteen and the Nashville Statement
You people are really disappointing both Joel Osteen and the authors of the Nashville Statement. You are going to need to fix that if you want to be back in their good graces.
A New Site Feature
We are entrusting you, each of you, with a great power. And you already know what comes along with great power.
Objects Have Free Will; People Don’t
A review of The Hunger Games: Mockingbird: Part II. And some Rube Goldberg machines.
Book Review: Dystopia: a Natural History (Oxford, 2017)
A new book from Oxford University Press takes a lively and engaging look at that bleakest of topics.
Viva la Resistance!
Because every evil dystopia has its band of ragtag resistance fighters with that one in a million chance of toppling an empire.
This Cannot Be
Dear Presidential Committee:
On behalf of the nineteen Core Competencies as developed by the Consensus Statement on Presidential Attributes Sub-Committee on Selection Criteria Summit of 2048, we respectfully submit this Letter of Evaluation.
A Reflection Upon The Terms Of A Looming Divorce
What it will look like when we go our separate ways.
