On recent events in Hong Kong, and related lessons from American history

The BBC reports: In China, an editorial in People's Daily warned of "unimaginable consequences" if the protests con…

On the nature of software ownership, yet again

Being a Google employee, I shouldn't comment on the specific case , but I do think this is an opportune time to repeat that b…

Occupy .* and the Iraq War

Then, as now, conservative opinion and elite bipartisan opinion was mostly contemptuous of the protesters. Well-fed, well-educat…