Current Affairs

Right now, the Bush Administration is doing what the Johnson people did in the mid-1960s, everything they can to institutionalize...

My word for all this is satiation. Many of our richest and most famous chafe at the limits of their...

That's what open source politics is about. It's not about the extremes of either capitalism or communism. It's about finding...

They have a cold, we catch the flu. China wants to cool off its growth, we slide into recession. The...

The charge is that Kos and Armstrong used this channel to get their fellow bloggers to keep quiet about their...

Real change does not happen often. For assumptions to change you need a crisis. You need a set of problems...

There are things which can be done. But expecting capital to flow into an industry the government is discouraging doesn’t...

There are ample new supplies of real Internet bits available. They don't need subsidy. All they need is an opportunity...

Progress comes in small steps. You have to see under the surface to see it. And it can be infuriating,...

The only question, today, is how long we’ll stay in the Brezhnev Trap, and what we will lose before we...