Politics Is Boring
Annual Report from The Tracinski Letter This year, I’m starting a new tradition: an end-of year “annual report” discussing what I’ve done in the past year and what’s coming for next year, both in terms...
View ArticlePlanned Obsolescence
We Are All Futurists Now, Part 4 This article is part four out of (probably) eight. In the previous installments of this series, I sketched out some of the big new technological innovations that are...
View ArticleTrustbusters
Remember back when Microsoft was the huge juggernaut that was going to totally dominate the technology industry and take over the world? I do, because I cut my teeth as a political writer and activist...
View ArticleInformation-Age Philosopher-Kings
The award for Whiner of the Week goes to Salon’s Joan Walsh, who penned a water-carrying piece denying the disastrous launch of ObamaCare. She then hyperventilates about the response. I wrote a piece...
View ArticleAtlas Is Still Shrugging
A Reader’s Guide to Atlas Shrugged, Part 7 Spoiler Alert: You do not need a reader’s guide to Atlas Shrugged—at least not for your first reading. Ayn Rand’s novel is clear, compelling, eminently...
View ArticleHow to Talk to a Non-Leftist the Other 364 Days of the Year
They’ve done it again. The same sort of people who thought it would be a great idea to ruin Thanksgiving by spouting political propaganda to their relatives have now offered helpful hints on how to be...
View ArticleThe Sexual Revolution Turns Against Its Own
Hugh Hefner once declared that the audience for his magazine was men “between the ages of 18 to 80.” I think it’s fair to say that men from 18 to 80 were shocked and perhaps a little saddened at the...
View ArticleThe Old Regime and the Internet Revolution
On Friday, Twitter suspended the account of Robert Stacy McCain, a conservative blogger and dogged critic of feminism, apparently without warning or explanation. This has led, in true Twitter fashion,...
View ArticleThe Zuckerberg News Bureau
A report on the inner workings of Facebook’s “Trending Topics” headlines exposes how Facebook contractors routinely manipulated the news feed to exclude topics and news sources of interest to people on...
View ArticleAn Army of Mary Sues
Star Trek is the original home of fan fiction as we know it, and it is becoming the biggest battleground for the future of fan fiction. The basic question is the extent to which copyright holders of...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Is Not About Censorship
I opened my Firefox browser a few days ago and got a message warning me that, “Without Net Neutrality, big companies could censor people and perspectives online.” Does anyone have an idea why this...
View ArticleCool It on the Google “Monopoly” Talk
In what has to be the world’s biggest example of the Streisand Effect, a Google-funded center-left think tank kicked out a group of scholars who were promoting the idea that Google is a dangerous...
View ArticleWatch This Movie to Debunk the “Tech Monopoly” Hysteria
The frenzy to regulate big technology firms as “monopolies” is starting to spread like influenza across the political spectrum. Turning Web search and social media into government-regulated utilities...
View ArticleThose Who Don’t Learn from Telecom History Are Doomed to Repeat It
A few days ago, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced his plan to hold a final vote next month to roll back the “Net Neutrality” regulations imposed in 2015 under the previous administration. This has led to...
View ArticleAT&T’s Cautionary Tale for Net Neutrality
Last week’s announcement by Chairman Ajit Pai that the FCC will soon vote to roll back “Net Neutrality” regulations has produced a lot of hysterical overreaction, with headlines proclaiming, “FCC Is...
View ArticleFive Things You Need to Read Today
Here’s your weekly update, for subscribers only, drawing your attention to five stories that are worth catching. This week, the main theme is the strange contempt for science among its vocal defenders....
View ArticleFive Things You Need to Read Today
Here’s your weekly update, for subscribers only, drawing your attention to five stories that are worth catching. Today, the main theme is the technological dystopia Silicon Valley is creating for us....
View ArticleAdventures Across the Poe Horizon
Five Things You Need to Read Today Here is your latest update, for subscribers only, recommending five stories that are worth catching. 1. Adventures Across the Poe Horizon, Part 1 If you set out to...
View ArticleFollowers
There is now widespread agreement that social media is a problem. In describing his hiring at The Atlantic and abrupt firing at the behest of a Twitter mob, Kevin Williamson concludes that the problem...
View ArticleOne Neck, Ready for One Leash
The Internet has brought us one of the greatest expansions of the free flow of information in history, so naturally government bureaucrats think this has to stop immediately. And when it comes to...
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