National Review Is Lying, For Instance. There Will Be More. Keep An Eye Out.

How Should The Rule of Law Approach No-Win Scenarios?

What We Don’t Know About Why The Hunter Biden Plea Deal Blew Up

Yes It Vexes Me. This Is Just How God Made Me.

It Can Come From Anywhere — Even The Washington Post

A Specific Example of What Useful "Cancel Culture" Dialogue Could Involve

I've Got A Lot Of Problems With You People, And Now You're Going To Hear About It.

No. No it is not. That's Just Wrong, Glenn.

Seriously, Though, Don’t Write Letters Like This

Measured Decisions Rarely Please Anyone

Nah Fam That's Speech, Come On Now

Thoughts From 2012 Seem Relevant in 2023

When Should A Threat Be Outside of First Amendment Protection?

Patient readers: I am in week two of a God-knows-how-long trial in San Diego. It’s a great city and if you have to be away from home in trial, this is one of the best places: walking a few blocks to the courthouse, enjoying mild weather, sampling the frankly pretentious array of craft beers and so forth. It does make long-form writing harder, though.

Hats and the free speech rights of government employees — a lawsplainer.

Yalies, Ugh

A Disturbed Internet Personality Goes On The Offensive

What is a "First Amendment Exception?" What does it mean that "the First Amendment applies"?

The Age of Information has come to a brutal end—here's how it happened

From Upworthy to Buzzfeed, all the click chasing gimmicks have failed—but there is one sure option left

This Much Foolishness Needed Two Episodes

Spotify's losses get worse, and the CEO dumps $100 million in stock—but that's just a small part of the streaming crisis

I thought I was immune, but still became a Dan stan—this is my story

It's a clumsy word, but a lovely thing to do

The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's only recently that civilization has been able to use titanium as a metal (titanium dioxide has been in use somewhat longer as a paint pigment). Because titanium so readily bonds with oxygen and other elements, it doesn’t occur at all in metallic form in nature.

And how we can sew it back together

They keep reaching out to me with the same sad story—and here's what I say

You want what cannot be had

The novelist delivered an end-of-life masterpiece, but the culture machine was barely interested

Did you even notice?

On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew

Or why web platforms keep changing their names like criminals in the Witness Protection Program

The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901

I've been a fan since childhood—and it feels like I've lost a part of my extended family

In response to reader requests, I share my 3 levels of note-taking

The captured British spy later declared that his 526 days in isolation were "an exercise in liberty"

I have a theory, but it's a little disturbing

The ability to control speech always leads to corruption

A larger animal waits for a smaller one to die

Blame Harry Reid, Skinwalker Ranch, "dino-beavers," and The New York Times