In spite of the recession (or perhaps because of it), online dating is a thriving, billion-dollar industry. Too bad the fancy algorithms and “expert” profile-matching are so much snake oil.
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February 15, 2012
Posted in Culture
February 8, 2012
Establishing a fund to “help small businesses” may sound good, but a cheaper idea is easing the fees and regulations that saddle even aspiring ice-cream shop owners with crushing debt and years-long delays before opening their doors.
Posted in Domestic Policy, Economics
February 7, 2012
How lard-loving chef Paula Deen’s recent diabetes diagnosis and a European recall of dangerous breast implants show that neither the government nor the free market alone can fix health care.
Posted in Heath Care
February 6, 2012
We like to think of Charles Dickens as an genius of invention; he might have protested that he was rather a genius of observation. What might he have noticed about our own hard times today?
Posted in Arts & Literature
February 3, 2012
January 31, 2012
“Liberals need to be shaken,” says Jonathan Haidt. They “simply misunderstand conservatives far more than the other way around.”
Posted in Culture
January 30, 2012
Henry Miller’s fiction is today known for its lurid depictions of women as sex objects, but this 1970s-era critique is just one among many takes on the mercurial writer. Charting Tropic of Cancer‘s path from ban to best-seller reveals the cultural critic to be a most unreliable narrator.
Posted in Arts & Literature
January 25, 2012
President Obama is fond of quoting Abraham Lincoln, and this year’s State of the Union address was no exception. Then as ever, he deploys Lincoln’s words to make the precise opposite point than originally intended.
January 23, 2012
After years of reaping only modest returns from the “cultural cesspool” strategy of attacking Hollywood, the GOP may have discovered in internet freedom the perfect political wedge.
Posted in Politics, Technology
January 20, 2012
SOPA or no, we can all agree that IP theft on the internet is a problem. Or can we?
Posted in Technology
January 19, 2012
The libertarian-friendly argument to “get the government out of the marriage business” serves well as a white flag in the culture war, but would be impossible to implement. Why libertarians should support existing marriage law.
Posted in Culture
January 18, 2012
When a woman uses IVF to become pregnant with a donor egg, she is undeniably the sole legal mother. But if the two women are or were in a romantic relationship, the law should recognize two mothers, according to a new Florida Supreme court ruling.
