Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future
The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.
Features
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods
How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility"
Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants
Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.
Fly the Frugal Skies
How low-cost airlines have transformed Europe--and what it means for America.
Hayek for the 21st Century
Biographer Bruce Caldwell on the Road to Serfdom author's enduring lessons about bad planning, distributed information, and the liberating power of choice.
Cut-Rate Diplomas
How doubts about the government's own "Dr. Laura" exposed a résumé fraud scandal.
Revolt of the Porcupines!
The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a revolutionary plan or a pipe dream?
Disney's War Against the Counterculture
Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever.
The Reluctant Planner
FCC Chairman Michael Powell on indecency, innovation, consolidation, and competition
Mandatory Health Insurance Now!
It will save private medicine -- and spur medical innovation.
Welcome to the Fun-Free University
The return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom.
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties
The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights.
David Simon Says
The creator of HBO's The Wire talks about the decline of journalism, the failure of the drug war, and a new kind of TV.
John Perry Barlow 2.0
The Thomas Jefferson of cyberspace reinvents his body -- and his politics.
Dr. Feelscared
Drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain.
Lovers Without Borders
What happens when gays from two different countries can't wed?
Criminal Representation
Did Congress quietly make it a crime for lawyers to defend terror suspects?
Five Reasons You Don't Owe Income Tax, Dammit!
The most heartfelt beliefs of the "tax honesty" movement.
Washington's Biggest Crime Problem
The federal government's ever-expanding criminal code is an affront to justice and the Constitution.
Emotional Choices
What story you choose to believe about antidepressants reveals a deeper truth about who you are.
Confessions of a Welfare Queen
How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars
In Defense of Derivatives
Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth.
"Dominate. Intimidate. Control."
The sorry record of the Transportation Security Administration
