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How do you sell the idea of free speech to people who worry that words hurt? In the last few years, there have been increasing demands, most prominently on college campuses, to shut down hateful speech. A defense of free speech needs to...
Many a times you are fighting with demons in your mind that only exists in your mind and nowhere else. You are fighting against the perceived slights, against people who were indifferent to you, who didn’t support you, who belittled you,...
A gaggle of grotesqueries are haunting the globe. They sit on golden thrones, upon mountains of skulls, surrounded by moats of slithering sycophants. These psychopathic parasites possess preposterous power, but they are low creatures,...
So while I work with police departments regularly, I think it is critically important that technology be used reasonably. While this may be off-putting to some of my clients, I worked with the Institute for Justice as an expert witness...
I got a question from a friend I thought, after answering, would be of interest to a wider audience, so I’m sharing it here. If you have thoughts about this, I’d love to hear them.I am still committed to LRC, but enjoyed your discussions...
This is one of those posts 1) you must read and 2) it’s hard to pull out any individual quotes because the whole thing is so good. Go read it, but here’s a taste: But at some point, you need to bring your actual functioning human brain...
Lisa wondered the other day if the people who read my blog can intuit my mood from how much or little I write, her thesis being that if I post a lot, I must be in need of diversion, which must signal something. Whether or not this can be...
Here are my endorsements and commentary about the Boston, MA Democratic primary election on September 1, 2026. I focus here on contested races in my districts, i.e., MA-7, Governor’s Council District 3, and State Senate Suffolk and...
I was reading Bill Bryson's compelling * n a Sunburned Country* where I encountered this sobering anecdote: Although inland Australia has never been exactly verdant, much of the marginal land once experienced periods of relative...
Read the full post at - The Individuals Who Championed Each National Park Over the past few years, I’ve been able to visit a few of America’s National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and other public lands in addition to reading several...
A side effect of migrating to Kirby was the opportunity it gave me to revisit my markup and my CSS.
[Imagine you are back in May 1987 and seated at press row in the Oakland Coliseum Arena. The Golden State Warriors, already down three games-to-none against the Los Angeles Lakers, are about to get swept in Game Four of the Western...
Reece Rogers / Wired: When I first downloaded the McDonald’s app years ago, I signed up for its loyalty program hoping to get better deals. Why not get some cheap French fries? While I understood that this would entail some type of data...
Jednym uchem wpada, drugim wypada. Dlatego chcę robić notatki z oglądanego yt - żeby oglądanie było bardziej świadome, celowe i wartościowe; przypominąło research a nie brain rot. Nawyki osób, które wydaja się być 20 lat młodsze na...
Czechia’s Brutal Assault just completed its twenty ninth cycle. And with festival season wrapping up, what better time to curse the nature of change by meticulously focusing on the gripes. 2026 was my fifth visit to Josefov, the 18th...