Wired‘s Jennifer Granick has more on recently uncovered FBI misuse of National Security Letters.

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John Podhoretz approvingly quotes Joe Lieberman at AIPAC: There is something profoundly wrong when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism. Why? Most of us are inspired to become passionate about things that are near to us, things we have some hope of influencing, rather than […]

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“Float On,” is that you?

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My sporadically-functioning cell just decided it didn’t feel like remembering any of my friends’ numbers anymore. If I should have your number, either shoot me an email or (better still) text me your name from your phone.

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Tyler Cowen’s Cato Unbound essay is generating some discussion. He argues that what successes libertarian ideas have had actually tend to promote more government over the long run: Libertarian ideas also have improved the quality of government. Few American politicians advocate central planning or an economy built around collective bargaining. Marxism has retreated in intellectual […]

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So unlike Becks, I’m happy enough about the recent court ruling bringing “more guns” into the District. The violent criminals seem to have all they need, after all: Any “more” at this point pretty much have to end up in the hands of their prospective victims. But since gun rights aren’t really my bailiwick, I […]

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So, my father and I both loved Carlos Ruis Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, the labyrinthine Spanish bestseller in which a young bibliophile attempts to track down the elusive novelist Julián Carax, whose (brilliant but rare) books are being systematically destroyed by a man with no face. Early in the book, the teenage protagonist […]

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Hellenic scholar Ephraim Lytle outlines some of the dubious departures from history in 300.

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My friend Liz needs help for a grad school project: If you’ve ever recorded, made, uploaded, or emailed a video over the Internets, she wants to interview you. Actually, it sounds at this point as though if you’ve ever had a VHS tape sort of near your computer, that’ll do as well. If that’s you, […]

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Apropos of last week’s revelations about frequent abuse of NSL powers at the FBI: It’s Sunshine Week, and the organizers have launched a blog rounding up relevant news.

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