James D. Watson: Another Gadfly Swatted
The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...
Jan 28, 2011
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The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...
Hampton was 6 when his hometown snapped. His father worked for the Memphis law firm that represented King when the civil rights leader led..
“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...
Apparently the World Wide Web isn't as worldwide as it could be. The Internet—the centerpiece of the "new economy" technology that was
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The Business Rights Watch covers a number of different issues: Overcriminalzation is one, obviously, the process of making illegal that whic
February 2002 -- Why is the New York Times better on Tuesdays and Fridays than it is on any other day? Because on those days the paper's....
David Segal begins his extended New York Times story on the SEC’s suit against Sam and Charles Wyly with several paragraphs denigrating
libel laws pro and conFrom Libertarianism.org: "In this video from a 1986 Free Press Association event, Nat Hentoff and David Kelley engage
Cara Ellison is one of the very few bloggers who defends fallen businessmen. She is particularly passionate about Enron, where she worked...
I am always surprised to find a report more sympathetic than I am to businessmen facing legal persecution--and when the report comes from
AIG. Was Joe Cassano of AIG “the man who crashed the world” as Michael Lewis proclaimed , and as other anti-capitalists such as Gretchen
Tom Kirkendall, of the always illuminating “Houston’s Clear Thinkers” blog, writes about the legal troubles at Dell and founder Michael Dell
In its heyday, the instant book was an invaluable resource. Appearing shortly after a major news event, the tome would give a complete news
It looks as though Dreamworks could not have come up with a better slogan for its final Shrek movie: After
April 5, 2003 -- I am trained as an economist, and so it especially irks me when ignorant journalists attempt to comment on the economy...
On August 5, 2006, Reuters published a photograph of smoke rising over Beirut from buildings hit by Israeli bombs. It was one of many
In 2005, at Minnesota’s St. Olaf College, the stirring peroration of that year’s commencement address advised the graduating seniors to
But for advanced lessons in this craven policy, which I hereby dub “anticipatory capitulation,” I direct American “journalists” to study...