There’s been a lot of press coverage about the purported box-office slump afflicting the motion-picture industry, and I have offered my own speculations here about why such a slump might be occurring.
But Edward Jay Epstein’s recent article in Slate points out that, as far as Hollywood’s home-grown films are concerned, there is no slump.
Even though […]
I’m one of the judges in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s current “blog-a-thon,” in which entrants are challenged to post to their blogs something about their “click moment” … which EFF defines as the “the very first step you to took to stand up for your digital rights — whether it was blogging about an issue […]
There’s a nice column here by Canadian law professor Michael Geist regarding the court order in Canada that required those who’d purchased Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince too early to return the book to the bookstore, along with any notes they’d taken about its contents. Writes Geist:
The order compelled anyone with a copy of […]
There’s been a buzz in the blogosphere about the recent posting at Rolling Stone’s site of an excerpt from James Howard Kunstler’s book The Long Emergency. As the excerpt makes clear, Kunstler’s thesis is that the world is now facing a long (economic, technological, and every other kind of) decline because oil production has […]
Financial Times reports today that Apple’s sales of iPod music players have grown by 616 percent since this time last year, thus confirming what anybody who rides a subway or walks down a city street can see for himself — the country has gone iPod-crazy. (I may count as one of the crazy ones […]
Ernie Miller has been having an exchange with PFF’s James DeLong over the latter’s statement that “‘collective licensing or a media levy’ is a euphemism for turning creativity into a socialist gulag.” Improbably, DeLong defends the analogy, which Ernie says comes pretty close to an instantiation of Godwin’s Law. Note that Ernie is not […]
I’m used to reading frightening articles these days — the ones aboout global warming scare me in particular — but this book review in the Times scared me even more, by suggesting that global competition, together with an absence of well-considered government policy promoting the American economy, may trigger another Great Depression for the United […]
The Daily Texan today is running an opinion piece co-authored by former Texan editor Andy Yemma, former TSP Board chairman Michael Hoffman, and me, calling for restoration/restructuring of Texas Student Publications as a non-profit corporation. As I hoped it would, The Texan frames the piece as an Independence Day-themed editorial.
The history of Texas Student Publications […]