The Failure of Another Dystopian Film
Every good dystopian story needs a villain responsible for bringing about the sad state of affairs. Half the interest in the plot concerns how …
Democracy Is Our Hunger Game
Whatever good you have heard about The Hunger Games, the reality is more spectacular. Not only is this the literary phenom of our time, …
Warming up to Environmentalism
I’m starting to rethink the whole environmental craze in the culture, which is about as inescapable as pop music and jeans. It was born …
Theory Comes to Life
The final general session of the Oxford Club’s Investment University — the 14th annual and held in San Diego this year — just wrapped …
No Escape From the Mark of the Beast?
The Canadian gambling site [name had to be removed] thought it had the whole thing figured out. If you stay in Canada, use Canadian …
There’s No Such Thing as Too Much Liberty
Some great books are the product of a lifetime of research, reflection, and discipline. Others are written during a moment of passionate discovery, with …
Mencken the Great
Shawn Lyttle, a colleague at Spy Briefing Books, did a very dangerous thing yesterday. He shoved into my hand a little book called Three …
Can We Quantify the Economic Contribution of the Internet?
How much does the Internet contribute to our economic life? A lot, yes. But what if we tried to put a number on it? …
Governments Can’t Resist
The old adage that we don’t learn from history is true enough, but it needs amendment. Governments, in particular, don’t learn from history. That’s …
How Hunger Games Benefited From Online Piracy
So you want to see Hunger Games when it comes out on Thursday at midnight? It’s not likely that you will get the chance. …