Payday Loans: Leave this Industry Alone
“Bunch of do gooders shutting down the last chance these people had.” This sentence is a rare moment of truth concerning the coming regulation (or shutdown) or the payday loan…
How P2P Is Rebuilding Liberty
A friend of mine dropped and broke his new iPhone 6 and, for a moment there, it seemed he would have to roll back to an iPhone 5. It seemed…
Political Choice: The Theme of the Day
[Thank you to the Free State Project for commissioning this piece. If you haven’t been, the FSP’s Liberty Forum is a spectacular event, March 5-8, 2014] If you have no…
Ross Ulbricht Should Be Freed in a Fair Trial
The criminal trial of Ross Ulbricht, the man alleged to be the “Dread Pirate Roberts” who started the darknet’s Silk Road website, is coming up soon. As might be expected,…
Mockingjay Part I: No Romance in Revolution
Surely there has to be a better way. That was my non-stop thought through the whole of the viewing of Mockingjay Part I, a brilliant addition to the Hunger Games…
Tiny Wings: A Personal History of a Brief Obsession
A few years ago, a friend of mine was staying up nights playing the game Angry Birds. I tried it but I had the sense that I was behind the…
The American War Zone
It’s strange how something ominously frightening — the centralized and militarized police state in the U.S. — can grow for 15 years at least and yet not enter into public…
The Truth about Shaving Cream
The number of people who have thanked me for liberating them from shaving cream is uncountable. I was reminded of this last week while at a large convention gathered for…
Five Ways To Think Like a State
Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. There is a certain cast of mind at work here.…
Netflix Fights the Power
It was only five years ago that Netflix moved away from its DVD delivery service as the core of its business and started streaming video. Today it is producing high…