Society

Today on TAP: The nations of the EU are fast depleting the legacy of a decent social compact.

Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

Unsung, highly innovative companies all over the U.S. are proving that it’s still possible to make things in this country.

Today on TAP: Not if we ignore the pack-rat punditry and take a closer look.

This week we take you to Idaho, where 31 white supremacists attempted to disrupt a town's Pride parade.

The Truman show still boasts a conceit that was far ahead of its time in terms of subversiveness and prescience.

Wall Street traders were lining up to tell Christian Bale how much they (unironically) loved Patrick Bateman.

There's an average of six government-monitored cameras per 1,000 U.S. residents. The number is higher for the top 10 most surveilled cities.

Many of us grew up hearing, “You need to go to college to get a good job.” So how important is education to employers? In other words, does education

Someone* recently said a thing that stuck with me. Paraphrasing: If you're saying "I'm not comfortable dining indoors right now", you should accept that you're saying, "I'm never dining indoors again." Because there is basically no chance that things are going to materially improve any time in the next 2, 3 years, or maybe ever. There comes a time when "I'm just waiting for things to get ...

Plus! Smartphones and Distributed Law Enforcement; Actors as IP; Microtransactions; Partnerships; Streaming; Diff Jobs

I wrote this more than a quarter century ago when Linux Journal was the only publication that would have me, and I posted unsold essays and wannabe columns at searls.com. These postings accumulated…

Here we are Unf*ckers. It’s our great hope that we contextualize the Chicago School of Economics and its high priest Milton Friedman by alternately expanding our view of the world and narrowing in on crucial moments that changed the course of history. #FMF

It has become increasingly clear that the political Right in America is not what it used to be. In particular, my own preferred slant of classical liberalism is being replaced. In its stead are rising alternatives that don’t yet have a common name. Some are called “national conservatism,” and some (by no means all) strands […]