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Taylor Swift Shows Us Why We Need to Shake Off Intellectual Property
There’s nothing wrong with using a phrase someone else came up with. But there is a lot wrong with coercively preventing such use.
Benjamin Seevers | January 30, 2024
Latin America—Which Model?
The region is at a crossroads
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | January 23, 2024
Big Firms Are Hardly Invincible. Just Ask Blackberry
As Blackberry’s story shows, being big is hardly a guarantee of prolonged success in the market.
Trey Price | January 23, 2024
Government Funded Science Has a Major Fraud Problem
The system of “checks and balances” in scientific research is completely off-kilter.
Ulyana Kubini | January 16, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Education For the Better
Fear of new technologies, and the desire to control them, may have more to do with a fear of free people and the liberating potential of new technologies.
Kerry McDonald | January 9, 2024
The Mouse Is Free: Steamboat Willie and Intellectual Property
Steamboat-era Mickey enters the public domain.
Peter Jacobsen | January 9, 2024
What Many Critics of Child Labor Overlook
Child labor can be fairly brutal, but the alternatives are often far worse.
Kerry McDonald | January 3, 2024
Degrowth Kills People – Yes, Literally
The degrowth movement firmly identifies with social control or ownership of property
Christopher Lingle Emile Phaneuf III | December 19, 2023
Authoritarian Governments with Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software
The precedent set by Saudi Arabia's questionable record in sports washing, coupled with its alleged involvement in human rights abuses should concern gamers
Jonathan Hofer | December 18, 2023
Price Controls Are Not What the Doctor Ordered
Price controls will continue to wreak havoc on the healthcare system
David Williams | December 14, 2023
Milei´s Ode to Sacrifice
Best of luck, president Milei. The last job one ever wants is to be Argentina’s president at this juncture.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | December 12, 2023